Subject: Re: Can you boot direct from a raidframe partition in 1.6...
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From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/17/2002 00:20:14
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:41:11PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:59:07PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	The subject pretty much covers the question :) I know in 1.5.x
> > 	i386 you had to have a small partition with a kernel, but I
> > 	was wondering if this is fixed in 1.6?
> 
> Since 1.5.2 (or maybe 1.5.1) you need a small partition only to hold /boot.
> The boot loader can load the kernel from a raid1 partition.

Is that true?
Since installboot (i386) writes absolute disk block numbers into the
low level boot code (residing ia nsectors 1 and 3-15ish) of the (dos)
partition, wont it load /boot from a raid partition?
OTOH I haven't got one so can't try it.

	David

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