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So here I am a big fan of software raid and then I discover I am missing a BIG aspect: how to survive a dead disk. (A.k.a., I don't understand how PCs boot.) Here is the scenario. A bootable software raid 1 Red Hat 7.3 install. One disk is /dev/hda and one is /dev/hdc. Each is a copy of the other. I am using lilo because the Red Hat installed knew how to do that--or at least kinda. Now imagine the disk on /dev/hda dies. The disk on /dev/hdc should keep running, or at least be bootable. To simulate this I powered down and pulled the IDE cable on the /dev/hda disk. And it won't boot. What is the right way to do this? Thanks, -kb
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