Hello:
I know that a correct software mirror raid is subject to failures, when
anything wrong is written to both disks. And I also know that hardware
mirror raid is subject to hardware failures. I said at the beginning that I
keep two wheezy mirror-raid servers with the same data and software. Now
Francesco Pietra wrote:
PS: You did not comment whether the pipe' command that I use to verify
grub has a general validity. As far as I could use it, I found it
equivalent to examining each disk, one at a time.
It was clever! It was definitely in the spirit of the Unix
philosophy. At the
Francesco Pietra wrote:
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with
very limited ability in recovering from disk failures.
I must express concern. While RAID is very useful to keeping a
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very
limited ability in recovering from disk failures.
I planned to
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Subject: Re: Debian installer and raid0
To: debian-users debian-user@lists.debian.org, amd64 Debian
debian-am...@lists.debian.org
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with
very limited
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with
very limited ability in recovering from disk failures.
I planned to use the double-opteron, two sockets, server, tya 64, as a
victim for the test you
I have no other machines than the said two servers. As soon as a machine
was dismissed, parts were recovered for the new machines. Does not matter,
I'll try. What I was also asking, however, was how to boot to the grub only:
I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
With both
Francesco Pietra wrote:
I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
Press a key on the keyboard before the 5 second count down timer
counts all of the way down. Pressing a key stops the timer and causes
it to stay on the menu waiting for keyboard input.
Bob
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On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced.
No.
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On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com
wrote:
Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote:
recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put forward
that it doesn't really matter. If you have RAID then you know you
want grub on both disks. After installing simply run the grub install
script
Francesco Pietra wrote:
Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years
ago. However the poor way I described. I'll do what you suggest as soon
time permits, although the cables to the HDs in the old server are
difficultly accessible. And, in the meantime, I would be at
Klaus wrote:
Francesco Pietra wrote:
I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
When the system starts booting, the grub menu entries appear on
screen. After a timeout (default 5 sec) the default entry is
selected and the boot sequence continues. For details, here is the
Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years
ago. However the poor way I described. I'll do what you suggest as soon
time permits, although the cables to the HDs in the old server are
difficultly accessible. And, in the meantime, I would be at a single
server, insecure
Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Debian installer and raid0
To: debian-users debian-user@lists.debian.org, amd64 Debian
debian-am...@lists.debian.org
Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years
ago. However the poor way I
On 05/10/13 09:00, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
When the system starts booting, the grub menu entries appear on screen.
After a timeout (default 5 sec) the default entry is selected and the
boot sequence continues. For details, here is
recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put forward
that it doesn't really matter. If you have RAID then you know you
want grub on both disks. After installing simply run the grub install
script against both disks manually and then you will be assured that
it has been
Francesco Pietra wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
After installing simply run the grub install script against both
disks manually and then you will be assured that it has been
installed on both disks.
I had problems with that methodology and was unable to detect my error.
From a thread on
Hello:
Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced.
Thanks
francesco pietra
Hi.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:31:42 +0200
Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello:
Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been
Francesco Pietra wrote:
Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced.
I recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put
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