Boot disk?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 25 22:23:21 UTC 2011


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.
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