Alfredo Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have setup a RAID 5 system with 3 IDE 20 Gb drives. One of them has a
> /boot partition, and the rest is assigned to the md0 RAID partition. I
> can understand that if disks 2 or 3 fail, I can replace them and the
> information will be rebuilt. But if disk 1, which holds the /boot
> partition fails, what will happen then? Thank you.
You'll need a boot floppy so you can boot to the raid / and rebuild
/boot.
Now you know why that boot floppy is so important!
(Of course, you can also boot the cd in recover mode, but that's
a bit more work ;-)
rc
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