Subject: re: almost made it!
To: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.org>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/07/2004 12:28:03
   On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:06:07AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
   > On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Martin Husemann wrote:
   > 
   > >On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:08:24PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
   > >>No.  Someone would have to write one.
   > >
   > >In forth. I'd volunteer to do the (easy) other part (if that doesn't work 
   > >w/o
   > >changes - I didn't look). One other wish would be a forth bootblk that 
   > >works
   > >for root on raid. Any volunteers?
   > 
   > 	IIRC basic RAID1 support should be a simple matter of retrying
   > 	with an offset of 64 sectors if the initial open fails...
   
   Already does that.


yeah there is code in both bootblk & ofwboot to try to make booting
from raid work but somewhere something doesn't work still.  it's been
over a year since i last attempted to diagnose it.  i do hope to look
at this again later this year but not for a couple of months yet.

i'm using a boot disk with ofwboot & netbsd plus "raidctl -A root"
to get the real root chosen.


.mrg.