Boot disk?

[Rares Aioanei]

On 12/26/2011 12:23 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 23:53 +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote:
>> On 12/25/2011 11:37 PM, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>>> Is there a way to identify which disk the BIOS is using to boot from
>>> (eg disk 0 or 1) when I don't have physical access to the system to
>>> view the BIOS settings?
>>>
>>> The situation is this, I have a machine at a remote location where the
>>> system runs RAID-1 and both disks (0 and 1) can boot the system, I
>>> need to rewrite the boot sectors on the disks and I don't have easy
>>> access to the machine so I have to be careful as to which order I do
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Jeff
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> Try installing dmidecode.
>>
>>
> Sounds like a good suggestion, but where in dmidecode output do you find
> the disk that is used for booting.
I was under the impression that a server machine offers more detailed 
info than the
usual desktop (via SMBIOS), but if I'm mistaken, all apologies. I don't 
have access to a server
to test my presumptions, though.

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Rares Aioanei