Subject: Re: booting from RAID1 problems
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/04/2004 16:39:28
David Laight writes:
> > Looking more closely at all this, the only difference I can see between
> > my setup and the one in the NetBSD guide is that /dev/raid0a begins
> > at 63 in my setup instead of 0 in the netbsd guide setup.  Is
> > this the source of the problem, or is there something else I'm
> > not taking into account?
> 
> That looks like the problem.
> There is no need to reserve the first track of the raid set.
> 
> The raid set is only bootable if the root filesystem is in sector 64 [1]
> of the underlying disk partition.
> 
> 	David
> 
> [1] the size of the raid header.

[1] the size of the area reserved by RAIDframe for use by things such 
as real disklabels, component labels, etc.

(The component labels ("raid header") is actually just a single 
512-byte block at the present time...)

Later...

Greg Oster