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From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Looking to pick PCIe x4/x8 4+ SATA expansion card recommendation.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:03:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F99C1F.2050107@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22265.36590.539103.542573@quad.stoffel.home>

On 28/03/16 21:07, John Stoffel wrote:
> You do want to test booting from a broken RAID1 boot device.  When I
> recently did my big re-org, I found that to make it boot I had to move
> the working boot drive to the non-working slot, since of course the
> failed one was effectively /dev/first-drive and that's how grub needed
> to boot.

Your setup regime really should check that you install grub on ALL your
drives. Easier said than done though when adding new drives ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-28 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-28 18:44 Looking to pick PCIe x4/x8 4+ SATA expansion card recommendation Ram Ramesh
2016-03-28 19:20 ` John Stoffel
2016-03-28 19:25   ` John Stoffel
2016-03-28 19:43     ` Ram Ramesh
2016-03-28 20:07       ` John Stoffel
2016-03-28 21:03         ` Wols Lists [this message]
2016-03-28 19:35 ` Andreas Klauer
2016-03-28 19:42   ` Ram Ramesh
2016-03-28 19:41 ` Phil Turmel

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