On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:23:05PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> I've got a server with RAIDframe bootable RAID 1 setup. I initially
> installed it with NetBSD 1.6.2 and have therefore a disk layout which
> looks this:
> 
> 16 partitions:
> #        size  offset  fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>  a: 312452784  129024    RAID                     # (Cyl.  128 - 310100)
>  c:        16       0  unused      0     0        # (Cyl.    0 -      0*)
>  d: 312581808       0  unused      0     0        # (Cyl.    0 - 310100)
>  e:    129024       0  4.2BSD   1024  8192    90  # (Cyl.    0 -    127)
> 
> The BIOS started the new boot loader just fine but the boot loader wants
> to load the kernel from partition "e" instead of "a". I've afterwards
> remove "boot" from "wd0e" because the manual page claims that the boot
> loader will automatically use the partition "a" if "boot" isn't found
> on the current partition. But that didn't work, too.

That should work, but only if the root filesystem is at the start of the
raid set - the partition table of the raid set isn't read from disk.

	David

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