From: Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Software raid, booting and bios
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 08:54:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ir536c$9jv$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
Hello,
I use software raid (mdadm). The main problem for me is that when the
drive with the MBR fails, it can become a problem to boot.
When the bios would use another drive to boot when the first drive
failes, this problem would be gone. But I don't know rackservers who do
that. Do you?
Or is there maybe some kind of fake-raid card what uses mdadm to solve
this problem?
Another way would be to use e.g. an USB device to boot to solve this
problem. Any experiences with that?
(hmm, I realize that netboot is an option too).
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
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http://www.vandervlis.nl
next reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 6:54 Paul van der Vlis [this message]
2011-05-20 7:03 ` Software raid, booting and bios Simon Mcnair
2011-05-20 7:14 ` Paul van der Vlis
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2011-05-20 7:19 Simon Mcnair
2011-05-20 8:33 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 8:56 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-20 9:33 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 10:00 ` Simon McNair
2011-05-21 16:43 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 12:11 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-20 13:22 ` Gordon Henderson
2011-05-20 15:53 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 19:32 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-20 21:27 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-05-20 21:52 ` Brad Campbell
2011-05-21 8:19 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-22 6:31 ` Simon McNair
2011-05-20 10:04 ` CoolCold
2011-05-20 19:13 ` Ed W
2011-05-21 16:58 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-21 19:57 ` Ed W
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