[PLUG] Need some FreeBSD help

[Will Andrews]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:21:09PM -0500, patrick.n.fitzgerald.1 wrote:
> Hey FreeBSD guys (I know you're out there!)
> DO you know of any way to have the system boot from a software RAID? All
> the docs I've seen tell me it can't be done. I've got 2 40GB disks that
> I'd like to mirror completely. 
> If it can't, would it be possible to boot up from a non-mirrored partiton,
> then somehow magically chroot(8) the whole fmeppy system to the mirrored
> partition?

Nope, can't be done.  I suggest partitioning your HD such that you have
at least (say) 100MB for a root partition that won't be part of the RAID
mirror.  Then put the rest on the mirror.  The loss of speed and
organization is, in this case, quite minimal if you ask me.

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