I don't think that's what he means. Every x86-based system I've used
will cycle through all connected hard drives until it finds one with a
valid boot sector. As such, you install the boot sector on every disk
in the root/boot RAID1 array, with each drive using its own copy of the
files to boot if it's selected by the BIOS. This is not foolproof, of
course, as there are some cases where the drive will be functional
enough to start boot, but not enough to complete it.
--Ted
On 1/3/2012 5:17 AM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
On 01/02/12 20:05, Tracy Reed wrote:
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:54:48PM -0800, [email protected] spake thusly:
the BIOS doesn't know about the raid, so if the drive the BIOS is
trying to boot from is dead, how do you get the bootloader to
startup to even find the kernel?
My standard procedure in that case has always been to tell the BIOS to boot
from the other drive. You DO install your bootloader to both halves of the
mirror, right?
So, your solution is manual intervention? At home, fine. Not usually
the case at $work.
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