From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 11:17:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845C837B405 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E86043E3B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 23289 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jul 2002 18:17:20 -0000 Received: from p509101c8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO mail.gsinet.sittig.org) (80.145.1.200) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 11 Jul 2002 18:17:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 16562 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2002 17:52:14 -0000 Received: from shell.gsinet.sittig.org (192.168.11.153) by mail.gsinet.sittig.org with SMTP; 11 Jul 2002 17:52:14 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by shell.gsinet.sittig.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g6BHqEf16558 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:52:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sittig) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:52:14 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020711195214.T1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51>; from laursen@netgroup.dk on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:14:44PM +0200 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 14:14 +0200, Lasse Laursen wrote: > > I'm currently in the process of upgrading our Linux servers to FreeBSD. The > Linux servers uses software raid 1 on the boot/root partitions - is there a > way to do the same under FreeBSD 4.6? The trick is to load a kernel with software RAID support even before you have a root filesystem with your kernel and modules on it. :) This is not different between Linux and FreeBSD. Putting everything you need to boot into a ramdisk and loading it with your favourite boot manager is the solution. (I'm not sure but maybe the newly created livecd port is of help, too. Or you have a look at how installation media are done.) virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message