On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > Nevertheless I would love to be able to boot from _any_ of disks > in a bootable RAID1 diskset. I have just experimented with Highpoint's > RocketRaid 1520, which almost can do that. It fails if the primary <snip> > After all, Sun has been able to do that for a very long time, > it should be possible in PC hardware, too. Nope, Sun's booting is achieved in the OBP (Open Boot Prom) which is arguably more advanced than the current PC BIOSes. > (In Suns we have to define a set of boot devices into prom level, Which is specified based on the PCI/SBUS slot the controller is attached to. One Day(TM) we'll be able to see the PeeCee world drop it's ISA slot independence but IRQ/IOport uniqueness, not to mention it's real mode DOS compatible 0x80, 0x81 harddisk ordering... :( > and there all devices are different, and retain their identity > forever independent of plugging new interface cards into system, > but that is another story...) That's only a function of the order of entries in /etc/path_to_inst, which is achievable (to an extend) in linux with modules.conf trickery. Hendrik - 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
