RAID cards and multi-booting

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Timothy Daniels

Can multi-booting (e.g. in WinXP or Partition Magic) involve the
hard drives which are part of a PCI card RAID array? That is,
can the 2 HDs of a Level 1 (mirroring) array both contain the same
multiple OSes which could be selected at boot time just as one
can do with multi-booting from 1 HD? Or must the HDs of a
Level 1 RAID array contain just one bootable partition?

*TimDaniels*
 
Can multi-booting (e.g. in WinXP or Partition Magic) involve the
hard drives which are part of a PCI card RAID array? That is,
can the 2 HDs of a Level 1 (mirroring) array both contain the same
multiple OSes which could be selected at boot time just as one
can do with multi-booting from 1 HD? Or must the HDs of a
Level 1 RAID array contain just one bootable partition?

*TimDaniels*
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Yes, you can and must do it that way with a raid1 array... once the array
is created, thereafter, you have no control on differentiating what's on
(which) drive, they're logically identical and are treated just as a
single drive would be (except of course the OS driver).
 
kony said:
Yes, you can and must do it that way with a raid1 array...
once the array is created, thereafter, you have no control on
differentiating what's on (which) drive, they're logically identical
and are treated just as a single drive would be (except of course
the OS driver).
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To be explicit, you're saying that Level 1 RAID hard drives
*can* be multi-booted so that the OS can be chosen from
among 2 or more OSes at startup?

*TimDaniels*
 
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To be explicit, you're saying that Level 1 RAID hard drives
*can* be multi-booted so that the OS can be chosen from
among 2 or more OSes at startup?
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Sure. If you have a hardware RAID-1 card, it acts like one drive.
 
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