On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:53 +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: > I have successfully survived a hdd crash in raid1 since the system was > set to boot up from second disk as well. We copied all partitions in > disk one to disk two (including root) and then setup some grub magic. > so that the second disk was also bootable. And this off a software > raid. Before I started using 3Ware, I had a Lilo script that did this on the second drive with a redundant /boot[.1] filesystem. Of course, it wasn't true failover. I had to disable the other disk for it to work, or the controller board had to fail so it didn't appear. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- For everything else *COUGH*commercials*COUGH* there's "ManningCard"