On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 16:36, Josh Marshall wrote: > Best way I've found is to make /boot a small RAID1 (e.g. below is > /dev/md0) on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, then your lilo conf just has to > have these lines: > > boot=/dev/md0 > raid-extra-boot=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb > > And if the sda disk dies, it will still boot of sdb and use the md0 to boot. > > Just thought I'd put a few more technical details rather than just > saying "this will work"
That is probably the best approach, but note that if you boot with grub you need to manually install it on the 2nd drive of the raid (or both, depending on the OS distribution and version). Also, many IDE disk failure modes will keep the machine from booting at all until the drive is removed. I'm not sure if that is a problem with SATA also or not. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
