Ivan Voras wrote:
Christopher Key wrote:
I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard
FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining
two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used
for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MB
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:33:02AM +0100, Christopher Key wrote:
> Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> >Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> >>You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as
> >>it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only
> >>disks, but it can garbage up y
Christopher Key wrote:
I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard
FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining
two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used
for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR.
Ok. Let's call
Christopher Key wrote:
Sorry the original post wasn't clear, I'll have a go at rexpressing my
original questions using the above for context.
It was a complicated series of events, so it's easy to end up with a
confusing description (and the fault might lie with us being too dumb to
understa
Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Jerry McAllister wrote:
You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as
it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only
disks, but it can garbage up you menu with non-functional choices.
What you need is an MBR on every disk which
Jerry McAllister wrote:
You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as
it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only
disks, but it can garbage up you menu with non-functional choices.
What you need is an MBR on every disk which is *passed through*
Christopher Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard
> FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining
> two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used
> for storing data. They have the /boo
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard
> FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining
> two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used
> for
Hello,
I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard
FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining
two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used
for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR.
After booting off various USB fla
