On Thursday 15 March 2018 15:43:49 Tim wrote: > 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, That is exactly what I thought until I was in that situation. sda failed so I disconnected it, leaving just sdb connected. It refused to boot. I tried swapping the cable to put it in the same SATA port on the board but it still didn't boot. Last time was some time ago, and /boot could not be a RAID device. This time /boot is a RAID device, but /boot/efi isn't and is just a vfat partition. Hence my question. If I just dd this partition from sda to sdb would that then make sdb bootable? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
