Paul B. Henson <henson <at> acm.org> writes: > > I've been running openbsd 4.6 for a couple years now with root on > softraid, booting off a CF card with a kernel compiled to hardcode > root/swap on sd0. > > I read about official support for root on softraid....
> Anyway, just to clarify my understanding, is it expected in 5.0 to be > able to boot softraid root without a custom kernel or using -a? If so, > what am I doing wrong? > > Thanks... > See if http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20111002154251 provides what your looking for. Note in particular, the installboot(8) magic. The kernel still needs to be on a non-RAID partition, and only the kernel. The bootblocks point to a second stage bootloader within the RAID array.
