Am 17.03.2010 22:00, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> 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.
> 
> 

Just in case I ever face high demands on uptime. It's good to know
whether I can still (remote) reboot a machine and it will come up
although one of its drives is broken.