Re: Boot Block Stan Brown <stanb@panix.com> writes:
> I just had to replace an 8G drive in a B series workstation. These
> machines have 2 drives in them set up using LVM and software mirroring. I
> was able to et the replacement drive to remirror OK, but I recall from the
> original build out of these machines, many many ears ago, that when i was
> testing this I could not get the machine to boot with one of the 2 drive
> removed. Turned out that both SCSI ID 5, and 6 (the 2 internal drives)
> needed to have the "boot block" on them
>
> How do I make certain that this replacement drive gets this installed?
pvcreate -B I'd guess (then mkboot, then lvlnboot, etc). See the chapter about
mirroring a boot disk...
>
> The OS is 10.20, if that matters.
>
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