On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:33:00 +0200 Paul van der Vlis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You can select the "boot device priority" where you can choose about > devices types (DVD, harddisk, USB, network) but you can choose only one > SATA disk. Study it, and you will see I am right. I've asked it to my > rackserver-vendor, they say: "that's always the case". How about just not buying crappy hardware from this lying vendor anymore. http://ompldr.org/vOHB6Zw/bios4.jpg <- this is present in majority of motherboard BIOSes since forever. > But I think I have had systems in the past, what could do it. An > interesting question is then: how well is it tested? What when e.g. a > disk boots, and then gives an I/O error? I am looking for a well-tested > way to solve this, and I am willing to pay for it or choose another > hardware vendor for it. Yes, I think it is conceivable that if a disk fails in a 'bad' way, i.e. by locking up on reads, or reading the first sector but not the next ones it can prevent the system from booting even with this priority system. I don't know if chances of that are high, considering that quite often disks fail by also ceasing to be detectable in BIOS, in which case your boot-up would proceed normally. -- With respect, Roman
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