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...h the script below, I use rsync to mirror the /boot partition and the / (without /boot) partition on to removable ATA/IDE hard drives. (Insertion/removal of mirror drives are during power down.) This script works perfectly on my Fedora Core 5 system... After backing up and umount-ing, the /mnt/newboot and /mnt/newroot are empty and the mirrored disks are exact bootable clones. But corresponding commands in my Ubuntu Hardy (different hard disks, same platform otherwise) seem to send the copies to the /mnt/newroot DIRECTORY of the ORIGINAL source root partition (and probably NOT on to the mou...

Are there any tools for working with and moving or copying the MBR? My machine has 2 PATA drives (hda & hdb) and 2 SATA drives (sda & sdb). The MBR is on hda, but I would like (eventually or sooner) to boot from sda because it is two years newer, faster and, hopefully, more reliable. Even if I don't change that, I'd like a backup MBR on sda in case hda fails (hdb has gone sour a

Hi, in preparation to try zfs boot on sparc I installed all recent patches incl. feature patches comming from s10s_u3wos_10 and after reboot finally 137137-09 (still having everything on UFS). Now it doesn''t boot at anymore: ############################### Sun Fire V240, No Keyboard Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.22.23, 2048 MB memory installed,

Hello list, in a previous post I mentioned I had managed to make USB-Stick with 2048 byte sectors bootable. In fact I wiped out my Linux partitions bootrecord. This was with an old version of extlinux as still distributed by openSuSE. Interestingly enough the current version syslinux-3.61-pre2, spares my hard disk, but still seems to live under the impression it is the USB stick. The setup is

Author: szhou Repository: /hg/zfs-crypto/gate Revision: 56b02c555bfb41a423c9856c46c8918128e9d3c1 Log message: PSARC 2005/373 Contract for the Miniroot Repository 6263254 console output gets graphically corrupted after the newboot 6270368 grub does not honor vendor option 150 to specify menu.lst file 6271324 boot-archive.xml is delivered into the wrong directory 6271395 grub should show progress when loading the root archive from slow devices 6272654 gcc and krtld don''t get along 6273069 net install fails on v40z wi...