[Gllug] Re: Rescue CD with HPT37x2 module

[Stephen Harker]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 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.

True. If he's using a stock kernel then hopefully a) will be true but if 
b) is true then a rescue CD or any other running Linux system isn't much 
use :-(

Stephen
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