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Subject: Re: Need advice on building a system with a Raid drive
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Bob Bomar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I am building a new system and plan to use two 
>>300GB drives in a raid 1 configuration. However,
>>I have read where fbsd can't boot from a raid
>>drive, but it is not clear why.
>>
>>Can anyone confirm if this is a valid restriction?
>>Will I really need a boot drive separate from my
>>raid drives?

No, see google, it would give you, among other hits:
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/