[CentOS] boot process glitch due to missing 2nd disk

[JohnS]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 16:26 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> 
> A PowerEdge with plain old SATA disks will complain about a missing disk
> as well -- we had a disk die and everytime it booted while we waited for
> the replacement it would stop complaining that the disk was missing (we
> had software RAID and were able to stay up with a 'degraded' RAID set
> for the week or so it took to get the replacemnt).
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Which makes me wonder why would you ever shut it down in the first
place?  I sure would not wait a week on a disk replacement much less
more than 24 hours.

John