On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, David Laight wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:41:11PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:59:07PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > 	The subject pretty much covers the question :) I know in 1.5.x
> > > 	i386 you had to have a small partition with a kernel, but I
> > > 	was wondering if this is fixed in 1.6?
> >
> > Since 1.5.2 (or maybe 1.5.1) you need a small partition only to hold /boot.
> > The boot loader can load the kernel from a raid1 partition.
>
> Is that true?
> Since installboot (i386) writes absolute disk block numbers into the
> low level boot code (residing ia nsectors 1 and 3-15ish) of the (dos)
> partition, wont it load /boot from a raid partition?
> OTOH I haven't got one so can't try it.

	I'll have a spin to confirm/deny this :)

-- 
		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --