From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 18: 6:51 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 4D67537B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:06:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2268343E4A for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6C16fZL072052; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:36:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020711195214.T1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711195214.T1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 12 Jul 2002 10:36:40 +0930 Message-Id: <1026436002.17955.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 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