Linux Software Raid 1 Recovery Question

[John Abreau]

Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:08:29PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> > The problem is the typical PC boots only from hda and is unable to
> > boot from hdc.
> 
> Then what is the BIOS asking about when it lets me say what I want to
> boot from?  For example, HDD-0, HDD-1, HDD-2, and HDD-3, CDROM, LAN,
> etc.?  I assumed that this means it would look for an MBR on the
> specified disk.  Is this a new feature not in early BIOSes?

I've never seen that type of support in a PC's BIOS. Your typical 
motherboard gives a simpler selection of "HDD, FLOPPY, CDROM", 
and a few offer a "Boot from SCSI BIOS" option in addition.


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