On 8/23/2011 12:50 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > *hi, > I installed squeeze on 2 disks sata using raid 1.
Hardware/mobo fakeraid, or Linux MD RAID (mdadm)? Please state mobo brand and model#, as well as any IDE/SATA PCI/e cards. > the system runs fine with both disks, it runs fine with the first disk > alone, > > > but it fails to reboot from the second disk alone. > although i installed grub in both disks > > when i used the second disk alone, it is detected as slave!!!! no master > disk detected!!!, > so the system reboot without stopping!!!! > > is there a possibility to declare the disk as master??? > > thanks for help > * SATA doesn't have "master" and "slave" designations, so I'd say you're using IDE disks, or your system BIOS is funky. Also, Master and Slave don't mean what you apparently think they do. These settings have nothing to do with software, should not affect boot order, or how Linux runs. In the world or IDE/PATA, you can have a single slave device on a cable in absence of a "Master" device. Think of "Master" and "Slave" as "0" and "1" instead. They are simply designations, but given horribly bad names decades ago by engineers with brain damage. Regardless, you should be able to configure the boot order in the BIOS to do whatever you want, unless of course this is a really old PC. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e53ff4e.8000...@hardwarefreak.com