If there is effectively no disk in the first IDE channel then the bios should boot the disk in the second channel without a problem.
You may need to customise LILO/GRUB params though... To setup simply unplug the disk in the primary channel and fiddle until it boots correctly, then plug in primary disk again and you are set -----Original Message----- From: Kent Borg [mailto:kentborg-rhl@;borg.org] Sent: 30 October 2002 16:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: software raid recovery On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:49:51PM -0000, Edward Wildgoose wrote: > Just make sure that both disks are bootable and have a boot sector > and then both disks should work. Unplug one at a time to check. > Most BIOS's boot from the "first" disk they find with a master boot > record, having both bootable is not a problems But I want to be able to have the first disk be the dead one, or a new replacement, and the second disk be the working disk. And I want that second disk to be bootable as the second disk. I know how to tell my bios to try the second disk, but I tend to get things like "LI 99 99 99 99", etc. (I forget the exact details, I let this drop of late, and I shouldn't have done that.) -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
