From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sandro Dentella Subject: Re: RAID design Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:34:30 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030712173430.GA8599@bluff.diade.it> References: <000201c3480a$9c7ebbd0$27e703ca@magnus> <2168.208.48.139.163.1058030561.squirrel@www.greenhydrant.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2168.208.48.139.163.1058030561.squirrel@www.greenhydrant.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids > > Not neccessarily. Modern motherboards will boot of either on-board > > controller, so if the primary failed, then the master drive on the 2nd > > controller ought to be able to boot. It's worth checking your motherboard > > though. All the systems I've built in the past 2-3 years like this have > > had this ability. You may need to physically unplug the failed drive > > though (and reboot) if it fails in a way that make it look like it's still > > active. You also need to install GRUB (od lilo) on both disks, as I understand. Reallu I never understood how to do that from living hard disk, so I normally need to install GRUN from floppy the first time it starts. I normally do the following from a CD that I use to make istallations from grub --batch <