Subject: RE: Can you boot direct from a raidframe partition in 1.6...
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Jenkins, Graham K \[IBM GSA\] <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/17/2002 09:23:26
> > > 	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?
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
This whole thing looks somewhat complicated.  Why isn't there an
option during Installation for laying out root disk as a RAID mirror
piece?

G.