On 05/31/2012 05:54 PM, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > Please reply on the list. I'm already subscribed and others might find > your questions useful. Also, don't send HTML e-mails. Check the lists' > guidelines. > > On Thu (31/05/12), Eugene Yunak wrote: >> Thank you very much, this is super helpful! i am going to buy either >> this board or the E450 one and dmesg is precisely what i needed. >> >> One question if i may - do you know if it supports boot from USB and >> maybe USB raid 1? (i want to create mirror of usb sticks and install OS >> there, and use all the sata ports for data hdds). > > It boots from USB. I installed OBSD this way. I suppose softraid(4) > should support raid 1 with USB drives/sticks. I don't think it's a good > idea though. >
Be aware, that OpenBSD cannot boot from softraid. / needs to be on a single disk, but can be automatically backuped to an altroot device. Here is my fstab in a similar setup: ~ $ more /etc/fstab /dev/sd0a / ffs rw 1 1 /dev/sd0b none swap sw aad9c166558b757e.d /usr ffs rw,nodev,softdep 1 2 aad9c166558b757e.e /tmp ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2 aad9c166558b757e.f /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2 aad9c166558b757e.g /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2 /dev/sd1a /altroot ffs xx 0 0 hth, marc
