On Thursday 15 March 2018 15:43:49 Tim wrote:
I thought with RAID1 being "all drives identical," and that unless you
were using yet another drive to boot from (separate from your raid),
that each drive would have a boot partition on it. Following that
train of thought, if your controller didn't let you boot from a
different drive (which seems a serious shortcoming, to me), wouldn't it
be possible to just unplug the drives and put your still working one
into the first slot?
Just a brute force and ignorance approach to the situation...
Seems to me that the idea of mirrored drives is to give an easy way of
dealing with drive failures, surely it shouldn't impose complex
routines to get past the first drive going bad.
Tim,
That is exactly what I thought until I was in that situation. sda failed so I
disconnected it, leaving just sdb connected. It refused to boot. I tried
swapping the cable to put it in the same SATA port on the board but it still
didn't boot.
Last time was some time ago, and /boot could not be a RAID device. This
time /boot is a RAID device, but /boot/efi isn't and is just a vfat
partition.
Hence my question. If I just dd this partition from sda to sdb would that then
make sdb bootable?
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