Re: Using RAIDframe in dom0

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:46:45PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:58:25PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >     Hello,
> > 
> > is it possible to boot Xen and a NetBSD dom0 from a RAIDframe mirror?
> 
> It is, but grub wants a plain ffs partition; it doesn't work from a raidframe
> partition. To workaround this I added a FFS partition matching my raid0a (root
> partition) on disk, that I use in the grub config. Grub itself is
> installed on a small separate ffs partition outside of the raid.

I don't think that's necessary (the small separate partition).  I didn't
need it with xen 1.2 and NetBSD 2.0, anyway.

Convincing grub to install into the raid partition, however, is pretty
annoying.

Thor