[Gllug] Re: Rescue CD with HPT37x2 module

Thu Dec 8 10:05:03 UTC 2005

Stephen Harker wrote:
> You should be able to pull the disk out of a Linux box and put it on the 
> first IDE channel and boot it up from there. Then you'd have a whole 
> distribution to use. I'd expect you can tell the BIOS which to boot from 
> first...

That's only the case if

a) The kernel he has supports the IDE chipset on the second machine and
b) The RAID controller doesn't use some bizarre on-disk format for the data.

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