Re: install/39697: no raidframe support in sysinst

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/39697; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/39697: no raidframe support in sysinst
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 22:12:38 +0100

 On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:45:03AM +0000, Greg Oster wrote:
 >  
 >  Even installing to "half a RAID 1 set" would be a step in the right 
 >  direction...  I'd argue, in fact, that we should only attempt to 
 >  support installing to a RAID 1 or half of a RAID 1 set...  We can't 
 >  boot from RAID 0 or RAID 5, so those could be just ignored for the 
 >  purposes of sysinst...
 
 I also thought about the 'half a raid set' ...
 
 It is also possibly to do an install (on i386/amd64) leaving a 64 sector
 gap for the RF header before the netbsd partition.
 And then fill in the RF header and patch the disklabel to match.
 
 Teaching sysinst the exact format of that RF area is probably not hard!
 
        David
 
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