Re: raid1: booting from the 2nd drive

1999-09-22 Thread Tomas Fasth
Drenning Bruce wrote: > One option is to raid /boot and describe the disk geometry in lilo.conf. I > don't think this will work on our Dells because the 1st disk will have a > utility partition at the beginning. Therefore, the /boot partitions will > start in different locations. Correct me if I'

raid1: booting from the 2nd drive

1999-09-22 Thread Drenning Bruce
I have fiddled around w/ raid1 on an IDE system w/ only 1 /boot partition. I plan to install my 1st production server w/ a couple of SCSI drives shortly. I've been reading on the list a couple of possibities for booting off the 2nd drive should the 1st fail completely. One option is to raid /boot