Re: Can't upgrade RAIDframe system -- won't boot from CD

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:02:30PM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> Is there a way to use sysinst on the NetBSD/i386 6.0.1 installation 
> CD to upgrade a NetBSD/i386 machine with its system on a RAIDframe 
> partition?  When I try it initially boots from the CD, but then 
> switches to the system on the hard disks and boots into multi-user 
> mode.

Interrupt the CD boot loader (by pressing space), tell it to drop to
the boot command prompt and then say:

  boot -a

When the kernel ask for the root filesystem answer: cd0a

Martin