From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul van der Vlis Subject: Re: Software raid, booting and bios Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 18:43:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9067914580344941270@unknownmsgid> <20110520145623.749b4781@natsu> <4DD63BC3.3010009@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DD63BC3.3010009@gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Op 20-05-11 12:00, Simon McNair schreef: > Paul, > Please can you get some digital camera shots (resize them, low res and > compress them) of the bios screen (or screen grabs if it's via a LOM). > I'm especially interested in knowing if in the device listing there are > two or more hard disks in the first place (as if there is only one disk > I'd not be surprised at getting only one set of options). It's not easy. I have machines in production and I had to reboot them to do this. And I want to buy a new machine, but I don't have it yet. > Can you ask you rack space vendor the specific question 'how do I set up > a secondary boot device ?". I can talk with them about it, but I think in most cases the first device will be detected, so the second device will not be used. With regards, Paul van der Vlis.