Bill Davidsen wrote:
Depends how "bad" the drive is. Just to align the thread on this -
If the boot sector is bad - the bios on newer boxes will skip to the
next one. But if it is "good", and you boot into garbage - - could be
Windows.. does it crash?
Right, if the drive is dead almost every BIOS will fail over, if the
read gets a CRC or similar most recent BIOS will fail over, but if an
error-free read returns bad data, how can the BIOS know.
Unfortunately the Linux boot format doesn't contain any sort of
integrity check. Otherwise the bootloader could catch this kind of
error and throw a failure, letting the next disk boot (or another kernel.)
-hpa
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