Subject: Re: RAID1 Mirror Boot Support
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/18/2001 12:51:53
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:45:13PM -0400, Lalor, Chris wrote:
> > As per Luke's changes committed 20001030, the -current bootblocks have
> > support for booting off of a RAID1 mirror. The commit also mentions that
> > installboot(8) does not yet have support for installing bootblocks to
> > such a mirror. Has this support been added (as I see no such
> > announcements) or is there a way to get around this and install the
> > bootblock in some other manor?
>
> installboot(8) hasn't been hacked to install the first stage booter
> on the underlying physical component and the second stage boot
> (/boot) on the raidXa device; I took a look at this and solving
> this is non trivial and ugly.
>
making a partition being just raid partition shifted some sectors (64
probably) right should solve the problem for raid1