Linux Software Raid 1 Recovery Question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

More specifically, the boot code must be in the MBR of the first drive. You 
can install another OS on any drive and have a system boot it as long as 
LILO (or other boot managers) are installed in the MBR of the first drive. 
Some BIOSes are more flexible also.
On 25 Sep 2002 at 14:08, John Abreau wrote:

> Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:
> 
> > Both of the drives are master, /dev/hda on the first IDE controller
> > and /dev/hdc on the second IDE controller.
> 
> The problem is the typical PC boots only from hda and is unable to boot
> from hdc. In the BLU demo, the solution was actually to swap cables so 
> the second drive became hda.
> 
> I haven't actually looked at add-on IDE raid cards, but I would expect 
> that
> they don't suffer from this limitation. They'd be kinda useless otherwise.
> 
> 
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