From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:00:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100317210028.1e4f499a@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BA13F32.9010207@f_philipp.fastmail.net>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk
> for this to work?
> If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also
> work? Isn't grub's hd0 always the disk on which grub resides (e.g. the
> disk from which grub managed to boot)?
I suspect that may be dependent on the nature of the failure. For
example, if /boot is corrupted, the BIOS will still boot from the broken
disk's MBR before failing later.
Most BIOSes now enable you to disable individual SATA ports, so you could
disappear the disk without unplugging it, although I'm not sure why you'd
want to leave a broken disk in the box.
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Neil Bothwick
This is the day for firm decisions! Or is it?
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 13:20 [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo Steve
2010-03-15 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2010-03-15 15:49 ` Kyle Bader
2010-03-15 16:26 ` Steve
2010-03-15 18:21 ` Stroller
2010-03-15 19:18 ` Steve
2010-03-15 22:29 ` Andrea Conti
2010-03-16 16:32 ` Steve
2010-03-16 19:57 ` Stroller
2010-03-16 20:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 20:13 ` Stroller
2010-03-16 20:44 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-03-16 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-17 20:44 ` Florian Philipp
2010-03-17 21:00 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-03-18 16:57 ` Florian Philipp
2010-03-16 20:46 ` Steve
2010-03-17 0:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrea Conti
2010-03-17 13:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Iain Buchanan
2010-03-17 4:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Keith Dart
2010-03-17 8:03 ` Steve
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