James Harper writes: > My original argument in favour of hardware RAID was good BIOS boot > support (implying that it still worked seamlessly even in the /dev/sda > disk is partly dead case) > > You then contested that you could change the BIOS order manually and > also that BIOS could also try sda, then sdb, etc. > > Changing the BIOS boot order manually is a kludge that you don't have > to perform with hardware RAID, and my rant above was addressing the > reasons why having the BIOS try sda then sdb etc isn't really solving > the problem in some cases.
These issues were why I originally switched from grub to extlinux. While I can think of cases that would still break under extlinux, I haven't run into them. Mostly it was grub's device.map not matching after the BIOS shuffled (or didn't) the disk order to boot sdb. extlinux doesn't *have* a device.map, so it Just Works. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
