Op 20-05-11 10:56, Roman Mamedov schreef: > 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. Interesting. From what brand server is this? >> 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. The problem is about detected disks with a defect in the MBR. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
