I'm attempting to use software mirroring to move the system partition between different hardware raid arrays. Unfortunately, whenever I pull the primary disk offline, I'm not able to get the boot loader to choose the Secondary Plex. How can I make the secondary plex bootable without the primary online?
Disk Type(s): Dynamic
Partition Style: MBR
Any assistance is appreciated, thank you.
Best Answer
After encountering the limits of software RAID in w2k3 we moved to hardware RAID. Have not tried in in W2K8. IIRC the problem we found is the software raid is only for 'data protection', according to the KB article. The second disk will not for boot by itself, you had to jump through some loops with boot records.
We get good off lease/used RAID cards cheaply, only get the well known names. Hardware raid will do it properly and support hot swapping. Software raid was just too hard.