is ofwboot.xcf RAID aware?

Hello

Is ofwboot.xcf able to boot a kernel from a RAIDframe
partition? I have
trouble getting it to work, and looking at the sources,
it's not obvious
to see if it can work or not.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manunetbsd.org

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Hello,

> Is ofwboot.xcf able to boot a kernel from a RAIDframe
partition? I have
> trouble getting it to work, and looking at the sources,
it's not 
> obvious
> to see if it can work or not.

I don't think it is. You should be able to get it to boot
from a disk 
that's part of a mirror set but that's more or less it.

have fun
Michael
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> Is ofwboot.xcf able to boot a kernel from a RAIDframe
partition? I have
> trouble getting it to work, and looking at the sources,
it's not obvious
> to see if it can work or not.

I tried to get NetBSD booting from a RAIDframe set, and
never could. I 
ended up leaving 32 megs on the top of each disk set to hold
ofwboot.xcf 
and a kernel (plus a backup kernel). If the main boot disk
failed, I could 
always use the serial console remotely to tell the system to
boot from the 
second disk.

On another system, I had it boot from a CF card - not sure
what the 
failure rate is on those cards is if you don't write to it
often, but at 
least there aren't moving parts to worry about.

John
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