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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorWilliam Brooks Ott
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A method and mechanism for booting an operating system in a Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) is disclosed. The method includes: searching for a copy of a RAID driver on at least one boot partition of a disk in the disk array, wherein copies of the RAID driver are stored in boot partitions of at least two of the disks in the disk array; and loading the RAID driver, if the RAID driver is found. In the preferred embodiment, the boot partitions of the disks are searched until a working copy of the RAID driver is found. The RAID driver is loaded and the RAID implemented. The operating system may then be booted. In this manner, the need for a Flash memory device for storing the RAID driver is eliminated. The method and mechanism can be implemented in existing systems not designed to support software RAID.
A method for booting an operating system in redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID), the RAID including a disk array, comprising the steps of:
A method for booting an operating system in RAID, the RAID including a disk array, comprising the steps of:
A computer readable medium with program instructions for booting an operating system in RAID, the RAID including a disk array, comprising the instructions for:
A computer readable medium with program instructions for booting an operating system in RAID, the RAID including a disk array, comprising the instructions for:
A system, comprising:
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