On Sep 09, 1999 at 01:26:35PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jonathan Lemon writes:
> : It appears so. The IDA driver needs to stomp on the WD driver's
> : vectors in order to boot off of the RAID controller. It seems that
> : something changed so that wd is getting probed after the ida driver
> : now, and removing the vectors.
>
> Is this so that it could mount root? In 3.x the only way to do this
> is to have a special disk label type. I've hacked things to get fla
> bootable on -stable using this method. The sysinstall program hasn't
> been updated, however.
Yes. The IDA driver will be happy with it's own device nodes
(/dev/ida....), but last time I checked, the boot/loader would
only understand root devices of wd() or da(). I understand that
Soren's ad() driver has the same problem.
--
Jonathan
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