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* Access to harddisks spread acrross multiple controllers.
@ 2009-05-03 10:20 Daniel Reurich
  2009-05-03 17:09 ` Pavel Roskin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Reurich @ 2009-05-03 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: grub-devel

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.


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Daniel Reurich

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* Re: Access to harddisks spread acrross multiple controllers.
  2009-05-03 10:20 Access to harddisks spread acrross multiple controllers Daniel Reurich
@ 2009-05-03 17:09 ` Pavel Roskin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pavel Roskin @ 2009-05-03 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The development of GRUB 2

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



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