On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 04:07:10PM -0400, Dan J Fraser wrote:
> 
> I haven't been able to find any information on this...
> 
> Let's say I have a hypothetical machine (i386) running two identical hard
> disks, mirrored with RAID1 and RAIDframe.
> 
> Add the partitions (including the root) are mirrored across those disks.
> 
> Now, let's say the boot drive (primary ide?) fails.  Would it be possible to
> set things up so that the system can still boot?  How does one recover from
> a problem like that?  With a bootfloppy?

The way I do it is setup identical boot partitions on both disks (not that
althout / is on a raid device, you still need a 'regular' partition to load
the kernel).
If the first disk fails you need to teach the bios/prom/whatever to boot from
the second one. unfortunably this need manual intervention but I've yet to find
a better way of doing it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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