Boot Disk Mirror

From: kengheng (kengheng_at_mysql.cc)
Date: 12/22/04

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    Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:28:17 +0800
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org

    Hi All,
    I got a mirror the root ("/") partition. I wish to know if the mirror
    will work if 1st disk failed to boot up, or I need to do extra job to
    make the 2nd disk to be able to boot up if the 1st disk failed.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.
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