--- Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> Caffeinate The World wrote:
> 
> > --- David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > > > 	/usr/mdec/installboot -b 16 /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0d
> > > >
> > > > would work.
> > > >
> > > 	I can confirm at least eight boxes where it does :)
> > 
> > Are all 8 of those boxes i386? Would the above method work for
> other
> > architectures?
> 
> It depends on the architecture...  For example, at least pmax (and
> maybe
> alpha and vax) need to have the 'a' partition starting at disk offset
> 0.
> However, the architectures that have that requirement are usually
> easier
> to get the bootblocks properly working with RAID1 without playing the
> offset game.
> 
> What architecture(s) did you have in mind?

All the architectures NetBSD supports. I will eventually do a write up
on NetBSD and RAIDFrame.

Thomas

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