Subject: Re: RFC: root on raidframe howto
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/08/2003 13:14:49
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, David Laight wrote:

> > I have updated the draft, please take a look at
> >
> > http://www.piuha.net/~martti/tmp/raid
>
> This is wrong for 'current' as i386 now uses /sbin/installboot.
>
> Also the boot code will look for the kernel in the 'boot' filesystem
> not wd0a - unless you build a specific kernel (or some other code
> I haven't written yet gets implemented).
>
> To make a fs bootable you need to:
>
> $ cp /usr/mdec/biosboot /boot
> $ /sbin/installboot wd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
> (Those files will boot a 1.6 system, the bootxx_xxx file just has to
> be copied around the label.)

	Could you update installboot(8) to include a suitable i386
	example?

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