Re: Is there a way to use Linux on the E450 ?

"Daniel Rock" <v200637@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Boot from any disk. Not just BIOS drive 0x80, 0x81, 0x82 or 0x83.

Suppose you have two old spare D1000 disk arrays. Each with 12 disks. For
high availability you want to put the bootdisk on each of the D1000.
Damn, the first drive of your second D1000 is completely out of reach for
the BIOS. Furthermore if the first D1000 fails completely, the remaining
disks are shuffled around.

Yeah, I added two D1000s to a x86 machine and after a while it would
not boot anymore (the reason was that by going into the BIOS the current
boot disk was deselected as bootable device and could no longer be
found among all the disks).

Fortunately, I could disable the controller's BIOS so it would not
offer them as boot devices anymore.

Casper
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