From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Feb  2 22:30:25 2012
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33ED106566B
	for <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>; Thu,  2 Feb 2012 22:30:25 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from mavbsd@gmail.com)
Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2FE8FC13
	for <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>; Thu,  2 Feb 2012 22:30:25 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so1057504eek.13
	for <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:30:24 -0800 (PST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
	h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject
	:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
	bh=IQncnPQs+tYhMK3AvJs8qcveZfwB0tEe7+xpFvQq+1c=;
	b=yBmz9xjirZ51etZJWjhXBgYlTYGmd8iXa4TUmbGkGK8hVZdpCTMDAv+8LrWNNGWRo1
	jgKlzNfw2aCAxz6EkcYexy9K0hegOYxt1Q++aHNOmYwTXvIJdQlUUqiB4Y3Q3AUm6Wfa
	NTncFdTbxfinwyttyL3vqudffbgBcHhwn24nU=
Received: by 10.14.100.142 with SMTP id z14mr1495241eef.58.1328221824342;
	Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:30:24 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mavbook.mavhome.dp.ua (pc.mavhome.dp.ua. [212.86.226.226])
	by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o49sm14243838eeb.7.2012.02.02.14.30.22
	(version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:30:23 -0800 (PST)
Sender: Alexander Motin <mavbsd@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4F2B0E74.9070809@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:30:12 +0200
From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64;
	rv:9.0) Gecko/20120116 Thunderbird/9.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Ravi Pokala <rp_freebsd@mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Bootable RAID10 on 9.0-RELEASE
X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations
	<freebsd-geom.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom>,
	<mailto:freebsd-geom-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-geom-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom>,
	<mailto:freebsd-geom-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:30:26 -0000

Hi.

 > I expect there must be an easier way.

If your system has one of supported software RAID BIOSes (Intel, 
AMD/Promise, NVIDIA, SiI, JMicron), you may just use geom_raid to boot 
from it's RAID10 volume with no additional magic.

-- 
Alexander Motin