On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
[ need custom kernel to boot with root as non-ext2 ]
| Much better approach anyway is to rtfm lilo docs, and create a lilo
| boot block on a floppy, that can boot all your systems on the harddisk.
| You must however update this boot blo
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:57:27PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> > You are arguing why having root filesystem on $my_pet_fancy_filesystem
> > is generally a bad idea. I agree with you, but it was not the original
> > topic of discussion. :-)
>
> i don't quite understand.
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001
> You are arguing why having root filesystem on $my_pet_fancy_filesystem
> is generally a bad idea. I agree with you, but it was not the original
> topic of discussion. :-)
i don't quite understand.
all i am saying is that it's not necessary to save a lilo setup with
dd because it's trivial to
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:33:23PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Joerg Johannes (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 02:32:55PM +0200):
> > Good idea, but would need rescue disc wiht xfs-enabled kernel for it, so
> > this one must do it
>
> huh? assuming that you are going to leave your linux parti
also sprach Joerg Johannes (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 02:32:55PM +0200):
> Good idea, but would need rescue disc wiht xfs-enabled kernel for it, so
> this one must do it
huh? assuming that you are going to leave your linux partitions alone,
you need a debian rescue disk, you mount your previous linux
in
"Martin F. Krafft" wrote:
>
> also sprach Joerg Johannes (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 02:09:49PM +0200):
> > 1.) Just to be sure:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
> > will overwrite any data on sda1 with zeroes, but leave sda2, sda3 and
> > the mbr untouched?
>
> yes.
>
> > 2.) To backup my mbr I do
> >
also sprach Joerg Johannes (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 02:09:49PM +0200):
> 1.) Just to be sure:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
> will overwrite any data on sda1 with zeroes, but leave sda2, sda3 and
> the mbr untouched?
yes.
> 2.) To backup my mbr I do
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/flopyy/mbr.sda bs=512 count=
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