On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:06:15PM +0200, karl@??? wrote:
> Hendrik Boom:
> ...
> > > If you have /boot on a raid-mirror on all your disks (pref. as first
> > > partition) there is no problem making lilo work. Since then it
> > > doesn't matter which disk it is booting from, it will load the kernel
> > > and possible an initrd/initramfs if you want it to.
> >
> > Except that the raid-mirror has been missing for some time, and the
> > two copies of /boot are no longer the same. Reattaching it would
> > yield two very similar file systems and lilo will thus have a choice
> > between two different places to boot from. If the two copies of the
> > RAID were properly sync'd up you would be right -- there would be no
> > problem.
> ...
>
> Boot with the disk with the newest version of /boot, connect/power up
> your disk with the older version of /boot, then add the old partition
> to your md-raid mirror. The "old" partition will be automatically
> updated. Didn't that work ?

Is it really safe to hotplug a SATA disk?
Will Devuan recognise it prperly when I do that?

-- hendrik