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authorStefan Sperling <stsp@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-11-27 13:15:55 +0000
committerStefan Sperling <stsp@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-11-27 13:15:55 +0000
commit811a6808e70a8158f96dec88935a77dc919a5115 (patch)
treeb806c3350935df89fca67b4ef26c072101811d15 /share/man/man4
parent9257c5c0b82cca11f80a0e0121dd26e3da948db1 (diff)
Document that sparc64 softraid boot only works with 'a' partitions.
Add an Xr to boot_sparc64(8) which has additional important details.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/softraid.47
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 b/share/man/man4/softraid.4
index 34d95bd69eb..85f5f07a98f 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/softraid.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/softraid.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.37 2014/11/26 22:30:47 stsp Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.38 2014/11/27 13:15:54 stsp Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Marco Peereboom <marco@OpenBSD.org>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 26 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 27 2014 $
.Dt SOFTRAID 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ in the boot storage area of the
volume.
Boot support is currently limited to the CRYPTO and RAID 1 disciplines
on amd64, i386, and sparc64 platforms.
+On sparc64, bootable chunks must be RAID partitions using the letter
+.Sq a .
At the
.Xr boot 8
prompt, softraid volumes have names beginning with
@@ -177,6 +179,7 @@ boot> boot sr0a:/bsd
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bio 4 ,
.Xr bioctl 8 ,
+.Xr boot_sparc64 8 ,
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr installboot 8 ,