Date: 12 Jul 2002 10:36:40 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <1026436002.17955.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020711195214.T1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711195214.T1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org>
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On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 03:22, 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. (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.) Actually.. The tough bit would be getting the BIOS to boot off the other disk if your first root disk is dead.. I believe if you could do that the loader would only need minimal changes to handle booting off the other disk. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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