On 2012-06-01, Manolis Tzanidakis <mtzanida...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri (01/06/12), Marc Peters wrote: >> Be aware, that OpenBSD cannot boot from softraid. / needs to be on a >> single disk, but can be automatically backuped to an altroot device. > > Nowadays it does. My server's / is on a softraid(4) RAID-1 array.
This is arch dependent. > The basic idea is to have a small 'a' slice for the kernel on each > disk and a 'd' (or whatever) for the raid. > installboot(8) does the right thing automatically these days. At least on amd64 you don't need a special partition for the kernel. - Shell out of the installer. - sh /dev/MAKEDEV sd1 (etc). - Create the RAID partition on the physical disks, you don't need another partition there. - Use bioctl to create the softraid. - Run the installer normally and choose the softraid disk as the install destination. > I think there is an article on undeadly with more detailed instructions > / explanations. > > A raid on USB devices is not a good idea for a whole lot of other > reasons though. > yeah. might be useful in testing but I agree.
