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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