Subject: Re: proposed re-work / unification of boot block installation
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/12/2002 15:09:31
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:34:17PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > [...]
> > I'm not sure how well either technique will work with
> > loading the stage 2 loader off of a raid set, as
> > we would then have to have open firmware open each
> > raid component, and masage them together.
>
> Note that we're only handling raid-1 (aka "mirror") sets, you just need to
> open one disk, and apply a well-known offset (RF_PROTECTED_SECTORS) to find
> the filesystem.
Oh, that's no problem.
Take care,
Bill