Francesco Pietra wrote:
> PS: You did not comment whether the "pipe' command that I use to verify
> grub has a general validity. As far as I could use it, I found it
> equivalent to examining each disk, one at a time.
It was clever! It was definitely in the spirit of the Unix
philosophy. At the
Hello:
I know that a correct software mirror raid is subject to failures, when
anything wrong is written to both disks. And I also know that hardware
mirror raid is subject to hardware failures. I said at the beginning that I
keep two wheezy mirror-raid servers with the same data and software. Now
Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
> something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with
> very limited ability in recovering from disk failures.
I must express concern. While RAID is very useful to keeping a sys
13 at 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Debian installer and raid0
To: debian-users , amd64 Debian <
debian-am...@lists.debian.org>
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with
very limited ability in re
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>
> I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
> something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with very
> limited ability in recovering from disk failures.
>
> I planned to use the double-
I hope not to bother beyond the limit, but the security of mirror raid is
something of utmost importance, at least in my work of biochemist, with
very limited ability in recovering from disk failures.
I planned to use the double-opteron, two sockets, server, tya 64, as a
victim for the test you su
Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
Press a key on the keyboard before the 5 second count down timer
counts all of the way down. Pressing a key stops the timer and causes
it to stay on the menu waiting for keyboard input.
Bob
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I have no other machines than the said two servers. As soon as a machine
was dismissed, parts were recovered for the new machines. Does not matter,
I'll try. What I was also asking, however, was how to boot to the grub only:
I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
>
> With bot
Klaus wrote:
> Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
>
> When the system starts booting, the grub menu entries appear on
> screen. After a timeout (default 5 sec) the default entry is
> selected and the boot sequence continues. For details, here is
Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years
> ago. However the poor way I described. I'll do what you suggest as soon
> time permits, although the cables to the HDs in the old server are
> difficultly accessible. And, in the meantime, I would be
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>>
>> recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put forward
>> that it doesn't really matter. If you have RAID then you know you
>> want grub on both disks. After installing simply run the grub install
>> script against both dis
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Francesco Pietra
> wrote:
>>
>> Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
>> before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
>> grub on both disks of raid
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>
> Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
> before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
> grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced.
No.
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On 05/10/13 09:00, Francesco Pietra wrote:
I forgot asking naively how to boot safely to the grub menu.
When the system starts booting, the grub menu entries appear on screen.
After a timeout (default 5 sec) the default entry is selected and the
boot sequence continues. For details, here is t
From: Francesco Pietra
Date: Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Debian installer and raid0
To: debian-users , amd64 Debian <
debian-am...@lists.debian.org>
Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years
ago. However the poor way I described. I'll d
Thanks so much. I am also using raid1 since I met Debian, so many years
ago. However the poor way I described. I'll do what you suggest as soon
time permits, although the cables to the HDs in the old server are
difficultly accessible. And, in the meantime, I would be at a single
server, insecure as
Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > After installing simply run the grub install script against both
> > disks manually and then you will be assured that it has been
> > installed on both disks.
>
> I had problems with that methodology and was unable to detect my error.
> >From a threa
>
> recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put forward
> that it doesn't really matter. If you have RAID then you know you
> want grub on both disks. After installing simply run the grub install
> script against both disks manually and then you will be assured that
> it has been i
Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
> before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
> grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced.
I recall that it has been added with Wheezy. But let me put fo
Hi.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:31:42 +0200
Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Hello:
> Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
> before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
> grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced.
Installing
Hello:
Did you use a recent version of the installer? What I would like to know -
before reinstalling everything on my servers - is whether the option to set
grub on both disks of raid 0 has now been introduced.
Thanks
francesco pietra
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