Re: Prepping to install: a digression

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 07/14/15 02:45, Michael van Elst wrote:
> wam%hiwaay.net@localhost ("William A. Mahaffey III") writes:
>
> > P.S. As mentioned elsewhere, I have had trouble w/ raidctl -A root
> > before, so I haven't gone there yet. Is that actually required for boot
> >from root on RAID (man pages seem ambiguous on that point) ?
>
> Currently it is necessary.
>
> The bootloader understands enough about RAID to read /boot and /netbsd.
> But the kernel just gets data about the boot device (wd0) which has no
> root partition.
>
> The raidctl -A magic overrides the bootloader information, so that the
> kernel will see and mount raidNa as the root partition.
>
> The magic should go away and the kernel should just learn how to handle
> raid partitions (and LVM partitions and ...). But for now that's how it
> works.


Maybe 6.1.6 :-) ?


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