[5982] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Disaster disks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Mon Nov 25 10:38:00 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:29:53 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: Trond Eivind Glomsr ød <teg@stud.imf.unit.no>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, David S. Lerner (Dave) wrote:
> This is sufficient for systems with an IDE root disk. If the root disk is
> scsi this will fail. In that case go through the upgrade script until the
> root disk is mounted. It will be available under /mnt. There is still a
> need for a custon rescue disk to handle cases where the system is really
> hosed.
>=20
> Dave
> On 25 Nov 1996, Trond Eivind Glomsr=F8d wrote:
>=20
> > "Kenneth G. Kay" <kay@kay.ch.biu.ac.il> writes:
> >=20
> > > =09Can't the installation boot disk (boot.img) in combination with
> > > the CD-ROM or the supp.img disk, be used as a rescue disk?=20
> >=20
> > Yup, but start it with a boot argument:
> >=20
> > I.e. type
> >=20
> > linux root=3D/your/root/here
> >=20
> > at the lilo prompt.
> >=20
I guess I don't understand the response to this message. If the system is
really hosed, do you have any alternative except re-installing? =20
In this case, my procedure is to have reliable backups (I use dump), so=20
that all I have to do is a basic installation and then use restore
to get things back. =20
-sen
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