Well, yes, you can just boot from a floppy if the machine has a floppy
drive.
The main thing about RAID 1 is that a hard disk crash whilst the machine is
running does not get noticed by users.
Suppose your system had to run in a remote site full of untrained people.
In that case you might want to put /boot in RAID 1 as well but otherwise I
don't see the point if you are going to be there and boot it off a floppy.
- Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
When using a hardware RAID 1 does it make alot of sense to mirror the /boot
partition? I have got all the other partitions mirrored but not /boot and
another one that doesnt matter (/dos). In linux how does crash recovery get
affected if the disk with the /boot dies? Can't i just boot off a floppy
disk and get the system back up and running? How is the boot process
affected if say one of the disks isnt there anymore?
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