LSI Logic raid status

[Miroslav Lachman]

Peter Ankerstål wrote:
> 
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>
>>> Im running RELENG_7 cvsuped and built like 15 hours ago. I still  
>>> have this problem.
>>> Please come back to me if you want some additional information  about 
>>> the setup.
>>> -- 
>>> Peter Ankerstål
>>> peter at pean.org
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>>
>> I'd rather prefer using a gmirror/gstripe instead of mpt  semihardware 
>> raid then ;)
>>
>> -- 
>> SY, Marat
> 
> Well, if the boot-disk dies the machine wont boot? Am I right?

You can still boot if gmirror is used on the whole disks, not slices / 
partitions.
gmirror lable gm0 /dev/ad0 /dev/ad1
Then both disks contains boot code. (of course, your motherboard BIOS 
must support booting from more than one disk)

Miroslav Lachman