Subject: Re: booting from RAID1 problems
To: Jeff Rizzo <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/04/2004 20:51:43
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:48:16PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> 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.  :)

Yes, this is an annoying bug currently present in a less severe form
in disklabel(8) as well: it complains about "invalid MBR" even for
metadisks and other devices that don't have a fdisk partition table.