Re: GPT BIOS boot

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sat, 1 Jun 2019 02:52:41 +1000
    From:        Nathanial Sloss <nat%netbsd.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <201906010252.42361.nat%netbsd.org@localhost>

  | I would create a small gpt wedge on the disc an put on it
  | /boot /boot.cfg and the kernel

If you need them, you might want the kernel modules there as well.

That's what I was going to suggest in reply top manu's last message -
I do something similar (I actually have a full root filesys in the
small wedge - and duplicate it on both drives, using rsync, though it
changes very rarely).   (The relevant system actually has more drives
than that, but just 2 of them are config'd in the BIOS as possible boot
devices ... I'm not sure, but in my case, that might be its limit for
SATA boot drives - it can also use ATAPI and, I think, USB).

That, along with raidframe root autoconfig (so raidframe takes over
root, very early) simply works.  It means a little extra maintenance
work when the kernel is updated, but it really is not a problem
(though I agree it would be better if things simply worked.)

kre