Re: booting from wd0b / raidframe

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:44:50PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I seem to be getting rusty, and can't work out how to make a raidframe
> mirror boot(!)
> 
> dd | hexdump confirms that sector 0 contains /usr/mdec/mbr
> I recognise the beginning of /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 from sector 63
> 
> The mess might because I have swap starting in sector 63 - is that not
> legal?

I don't think so. I suspect bootxx_ffsv1 will look at the beggining
of the NetBSD partition for a valid filesystem, it doesn't read the disklabel.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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