I have just received a free HP DL-385 system, it's quite a nice server with 
16G of RAM, 3*SATA and 5*SAS disks.

I want to set it up to run Linux software RAID-1 with Ext4 on a pair of SATA 
disks for booting and ZFS RAID-Z2 on the 5*SAS disks for data storage.

The problem I have is that the boot disks were wiped, the DVD drive is broken 
and ILO isn't licensed for remote disk access.  This combined with the fact 
that USB booting apparently doesn't work (it doesn't boot with my usual USB 
boot device) means that I have to make the SATA disks bootable before 
connecting them.

The fact that the HP system takes ages to boot and is really noisy means that 
I don't want to make dozens of attempts to get it by trial and error.

Does anyone know what the CCISS disk format is for a single disk RAID-0 (IE a 
JBOD)?  Presumably there is some offset where I can just put an image of a 
regular bootable SATA disk and have it work.

Thanks.

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