On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Stefan Unterweger <[email protected]> wrote: > I've recently started playing around with the softraid(4) driver, as I > recently noticed that bsd.rd already comes with support for it. What I > want to accomplish is to place as much as possible into the RAID set > (RAID 1, of course), ideally (almost) booting from it.
[...] > Now, what I want to ask: Is there a way to somehow "force" the root > device of my choice into the kernel, e.g. ` la config(8)? Or is there > maybe a way of specifying it into a boot.conf-stub placed into my > "boot-slice"? Or am I simply wasting my time and should stick to a root > *outside* the RAID-set which daily mirroring into /altroot? You can force the root device in your kernel config file, see config(8) and search for /config bsd/. I don't think you could do that without recompiling, though. HTH, D.
