Re: Booting from raid0g?

["J. Hannken-Illjes" <hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost>]

On 19 Feb 2015, at 12:10, Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost> wrote:

> All,
> 
> on an amd64 machine with a raidframe raid 1 (mirrored), I have set up a 
> fallback system on raid0e. 
> 
> Now, the partition boot record (bootxx_ffsv2) doesn't seem to know 
> about "raid?", instead boot.cfg(5) advises to specify "hd?". At the 
> boot prompt, "boot hd0g:netbsd" gives me "open hd0g:netbsd: bad 
> partition".

I use this entry in boot.cfg:

menu=Boot alternate:multiboot netbsd console=com console_speed=57600 root=raid0h

> I can, OTOH, "boot netbsd -a", and then select raid0g, but this 
> requires manual intervention. How can I permanently specify the 
> selection in boot.cfg(5)?

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J. Hannken-Illjes - hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost - TU Braunschweig (Germany)