[PC] booting RAID before IDE

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri Nov 28 06:02:17 PST 2008


> them using dump to another IDE disk. The problem is that when both the RAID 
> array and the IDE disk are plugged in PC, it's unable to boot off the array, 
> trying the empty IDE disk instead. Is there a way to boot from the array, and 
> yet be able to use the new disk?

simply read BIOS manual :)

if it can't, boot from CD/DVD stop bootprocess pressing 6 at bootmenu then

set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:your-array's-partition"
boot



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