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Booting from Mirror

 
Shift Support
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Booting from Mirror

I have a server which boot Win 2003 from the SAN, now wish to boot it from local disk. I have mirrored the OS to the local disk. Then when I remove the SAN disk and try to boot from the local mirror it fails. Seems like it cannot determine that the local disk is bootable. Have tried FDISK / MBR, Fdisk shows it has a partition, tried booting from a recovery floppy, ensured that the boot.ini is correct, even recovery console will not correct it. Has anybody seen a procedure to boot from a mirror?
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Joel Belizario
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Re: Booting from Mirror

Have you changed any BIOS settings? Sounds to me like the server is still trying to boot from the HBA.
Shift Support
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Re: Booting from Mirror

The bios settings were changed to it would boot from the loca disk. Error displayed is something to the effect that the HD is corrupt.