On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:39 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> >> On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw
> >>> things up
> >>> further?
> >>
> >> If this is unsafe I will have ketchup & mustard on my baseball cap.
> >
> > er... could you translate that? How about "dead horse on my baggy
> > green"?
>
> http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I'll+eat+my+hat
yeah, I got that, I was just picking on your use of ketchup & baseball.
Over here it's tomatoe sauce (dead horse) and cricket (baggy greens) :)
Most of my jokes need explaining %-)
> I just don't see how you can break anything *as long as* you don't let
> the system write anything to the disks. How can read-only be unsafe?
Perhaps something to do with the superblock or "last mount time" or
something? I don't know! I know that mounting a drive while a system
is hibernated, even ro, will kill kittens.
> One might be paranoid enough to clone images of the drive before
> proceeding, however.
I don't have enough spare...
> My one concern is over how you know this system uses software RAID.
> You know that EIDE hardware RAID was available, right? I'm sure this
> would rarely be available built-in to the motherboard.
well there appears to be no RAID controller, unless it's onboard, but as
I mentioned to Francessco the BIOS can see all drives, so can gentoo
minimal...
I've since found that the OS is in flash RAM, and only the help files
are on disk, so maybe I have bigger problems if I can't boot :( I hope
to get a copy of Guardian OS somehow...
thanks,
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
"Go ahead, bake my quiche"
-- Magrat instructs the castle cook
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
