[Discuss] raid controller drivers

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 13:54:05 EDT 2014


On 9/24/2014 1:23 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> OK... so my question is, how do I configure the boot image to force it
> to include the SAS raid controller driver so I can boot from a disk
> connected to it?

If it were me, you don't. I avoid doing this because it's a pain in the
ass thanks to the Linux kernel's broken device enumeration mechanism.
Instead, boot from a vanilla SATA disk on a vanilla SATA port set to be
the first BIOS boot device. Optionally, mirror the boot volume with
mdadm and set the two devices as first and second BIOS boot devices.

-- 
Rich P.



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