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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: Best Practice for Raid1 Root
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:48:09 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:32:12AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>When using raid-extra-boot, lilo treats second disk as bios #0x81,
>3rd disk as bios #0x82 and so on.  That to say - if your first disk
>fails and BIOS will substitute second disk in place of first, making
>it 0x80 instead of 0x81, lilo will not boot too, exactly in a way
>why grub installed into /dev/hdb (that was e.g. temporarily plugged
>into another machine just to make it bootable etc) does not want to
>boot from it when it will be /dev/hda again (when returned back into
>it's own machine).
this is not true

L.

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