Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/raidframe

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Apr 2, 12:51pm, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/raidframe

| On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:37:21AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > Well, there are different options here:
| > 1. is there a way to pass the root from ofwboot to netbsd?
| > 2. since netbsd knows it boots normally from raid, you can put a 
| >     "root on raidx" statement in your kernel.
| > 3. you can compile the kernel with RAIDCTL_FORCE_ROOT
| > 4. we can add an option to mark the raid as force root.
| 
| See also PR 44774.
| 
| Another option is to make the new behaviour optional and select it
| via boot.cfg (and populate the install media boot.cfg with it defined).

I would prefer to have a rootdev= boot.cfg option instead to force things
if needed, similar to consdev=.

christos