>   /boot skipping over the raid header so it can load the kernel from RAID

See:

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jdc/libsa.diffs

for some patches to implement this.  I'd be interested to hear results for
systems where the boot partition is not the first partition of the disk.

J

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