Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:59:49 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: "Dominic Bishop" <dom@bishnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from a large RAID Message-ID: <20070626195949.3fade033@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070626000501.8282313C455@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <20070626000501.8282313C455@mx1.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:39:52 +0100 "Dominic Bishop" <dom@bishnet.net> wrote: > At this point I'm assuming my only option is a separate small HD for the OS > which can be partitioned using bsdlabel. Ideally I would rather not do this > however as the server cases only have 16 drive bays so I'll have to > sacrifice some capacity from the RAID in order to achieve this. Maybe you can make a USB bootable thumbdrive, if your bios supports booting from USB devices... you can find them in the low GB sizes now, which should be enough for the OS to bootup. Alternatively, one of the IDE Flash cards (attached to the server's IDE channel) - it may be a cluttered inside the server , but they are actually the size of a USB thumbdrive. for example, http://www.pqimemory.com/products-Domindustrial.asp _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "That's what I love about GUIs: They make simple tasks easier, and complex tasks impossible." John William Chambless I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.
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