Allegedly, on or about 15 March 2018, Gary Stainburn sent: > From what I understand, and from past experience of when software > RAID1 setups have failed, it isn't possible to boot using the second > drive. > > Ideally, in that situation I would want to make the second drive the > first drive, add a new blank drive, boot and the complete the > exercise above. I thought with RAID1 being "all drives identical," and that unless you were using yet another drive to boot from (separate from your raid), that each drive would have a boot partition on it. Following that train of thought, if your controller didn't let you boot from a different drive (which seems a serious shortcoming, to me), wouldn't it be possible to just unplug the drives and put your still working one into the first slot? Just a brute force and ignorance approach to the situation... Seems to me that the idea of mirrored drives is to give an easy way of dealing with drive failures, surely it shouldn't impose complex routines to get past the first drive going bad. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.15.7-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 18:01:11 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. This email has been brought to you by beetwix. Mmm, spewy! Get some into you today. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
