On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:25, Peter Rundle wrote: > I did try at first to copy the boot sector and the hda1 as two > seperate images. The trouble is that on recovery, I restore the boot > sector and partition table, by > > dd if=/home/images/ws1.boot.img of=/dev/hda > > but at this point the device file /dev/hda1 doesn't exist because the > disk partition table wasn't present when the kernel loaded the ide-disk > module. So I had to re-boot the workstation before I could restore the > hda1 image. Would doing an rmmod ide-disk, insmod ide-disk cause the > kernel to build /dev/hda1? Yes, this should work.
It occurs to me that, in many recoveries I've done, only one thing's been trashed (boot sector or C:), so during recovery I've probably fix the boot sector and try to boot Windows again. Thanks for a neat idea. -David -- David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Little Bald Consulting, LLC ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
