On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > > My concern is that if I power down and replace /dev/sda the machine > > won't be able to reboot without a rescue CD (lilo.conf has root=/dev/md0 > > and boot=/dev/md0) or will it? A recent enough lilo knows raid partition and will install it self on both disks. So, in theory both disk should be able to boot you system. > > When the bios (Dell Poweredge 1500) will try /dev/sda's mbr and fail, > > will it then automatically try /dev/sdb? It might not even try /dev/sdb if /dev/sda exists... But with some recent bioses you can choose which drive you want to boot, sou you could just choose your 2nd SCSI drive and it should work. D. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
