Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:49:16 -0700 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good server motherboard? Message-ID: <200103271949.f2RJnGO18469@chopper.Poohsticks.ORG> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:12:02 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010327141111.03acb370@mail.etinc.com>
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In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010327141111.03acb370@mail.etinc.com>, dennis@etinc.co m writes: >Will the machine boot off of the second drive if the first one fails? It depends on how you define "fail". With a hardware failure or no 0x55 0xaa in the boot block, many BIOSes will fail over. At least one company has hacked their BIOS to always boot the next drive after an abnormal warm reboot. Combined with a hardware watchdog, this will even catch a bad boot loader or kernel on one drive that's in an infinite loop. -- <a href="http://www.poohsticks.org/drew/">Home Page</a> For those who do, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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