Yep, once I fixed up the labels and such it works like a charm.

I had to give up on using sysinst to install, too... sysinst
*really* wants a "real" disk, and keeps messing with the "mbr"
of the raid set.  :)

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:40:13PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> -- 
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk

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