On Mar 9, 2004, "Christopher K. Johnson" <ckjohnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: >> Will Fedora Core 2 take care of this automatically ? > I can't answer for the "automatically" question. But I can tell you > what steps to take to configure the second disk's MBR. And whether this works or not depends on how the first disk fails, and how the BIOS assigns disk IDs to the disks. E.g., if the failure in disk one is such that the disk is still visible to the BIOS, but its MBR or boot partition got unreadable, your arrangement won't work: you still won't be able to boot off /dev/sdb. In order for your arrangement to work, the failure mode has to be such that the BIOS no longer assigns ID 0x80 to /dev/sda, but rather to /dev/sdb. This may require tweaking BIOS settings after you replace sda, if it fails. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
