[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Scott wrote:
> Have you tested booting off the mirrored drives when one drive is
> disconnected? I've seen a number of boot failures because one of  
> the two
> drives doesn't have the MBR updated with the boot loader. As a result,
> if the drive with the boot loader is offline then the boot process
> fails. :) The fix is easy enough, of course.

This is why I prefer hardware RAID mirroring, when it's available.  I  
don't have to hack around with non-standard configurations of boot  
loaders that are fragile to begin with.  It just works, and the OS is  
none the wiser. ;)