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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Access to harddisks spread acrross multiple controllers.
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 13:09:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241370568.4472.34.camel@ct> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241346052.4862.43.camel@ezra>

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 22:20 +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been discussing the merits, potential implementations and failure
> modes of booting from raid 4|5|6 volumes. One of the big complaints is
> that bootloaders are limited when using int13h to accessing harddisks
> plugged into the controller booting from, making it impossible to
> assemble raid 4|5|6 array in this case.
> 
> I want to know if this is a limitation imposed on grub2, or is it smart
> enough to access the disks on all controllers on the host.

GRUB 2 has ATA and SCSI support, so it may help.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-03 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-03 10:20 Access to harddisks spread acrross multiple controllers Daniel Reurich
2009-05-03 17:09 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]

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