On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:06:15PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Hendrik Boom: > ... > > > If you have /boot on a raid-mirror on all your disks (pref. as first > > > partition) there is no problem making lilo work. Since then it > > > doesn't matter which disk it is booting from, it will load the kernel > > > and possible an initrd/initramfs if you want it to. > > > > Except that the raid-mirror has been missing for some time, and the > > two copies of /boot are no longer the same. Reattaching it would > > yield two very similar file systems and lilo will thus have a choice > > between two different places to boot from. If the two copies of the > > RAID were properly sync'd up you would be right -- there would be no > > problem. > ... > > Boot with the disk with the newest version of /boot, connect/power up > your disk with the older version of /boot, then add the old partition > to your md-raid mirror. The "old" partition will be automatically > updated. Didn't that work ?
Is it really safe to hotplug a SATA disk? Will Devuan recognise it prperly when I do that? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
