From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 13: 2:36 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 4147237B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clever.eusc.inter.net (clever.eusc.inter.net [213.73.101.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF1E43E64 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) Received: from tc01-n70-121.de.inter.net ([213.73.70.121] helo=there) by clever.eusc.inter.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17Sk90-0001FQ-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:02:30 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Matthias Schuendehuette Reply-To: msch@snafu.de Organization: Micro$oft-free Zone To: Gerhard Sittig Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:02:29 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: 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 Excuse me if I step in here... Gerhard Sittig wrote: > 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. Ahm... where's the beef? I.e. where does this RAM-Disk Image come from? It's safe to *read* from one of the two disks, but what I don't understand is: Asume there are 4 disks: disk #1+#3 are RAID1 for -STABLE, disk #2+#4 are for -current. I want to boot -stable, so I try to load the RAM-Disk Image from disk #1 - but it's crashed. How do I know what disk to use next? Please answer per Mail too, I'm reading this list via docs.freebsd.org -- Ciao/BSD - Matthias Matthias Schuendehuette , Berlin (Germany) Powered by FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message