Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:04:52PM -0300, loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Em Qui, 2007-10-04 às 15:32 -0700, David Brodbeck escreveu: I find that LVM-over-RAID is not autodetected by most rescue disks. It's necessary to first bring up the RAID array manually with mdadm, then

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-10-09 Thread loos
Em Qui, 2007-10-04 às 15:32 -0700, David Brodbeck escreveu: On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is that they do

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-10-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:04:52PM -0300, loos wrote: The problem is grub. Grub has no support for this (lvm over raid) you need a lilo booter (wich the etch installer installs). and a lilo based rescue CD. I was bitten quite often by this problem, therefore I use a /boot outside of

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-10-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid 5. The

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The problem with knoppix cd, and the debian installation/rescue cd, is that they do NOT understand the specifics of my lvm over software raid 5. The specifics required probably all reside under /etc -- on a

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Pallas
helices wrote: I have several rather complex debian systems, including software raid 5 and lvm, c. Occasionally, in the past, I have upgraded a debian system, after which it no longer boots successfully. Unfortunately, for these complex systems, neither the install/boot media, nor knoppix,

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-29 Thread helices
Thank you, all, for your insights. When I composed the first message, I had in mind the olden days when I often (not always ;) made a bootable floppy when I made a new kernel. That bootable floppy booted off of the exact same kernel, except a different copy residing on the floppy. When the

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices wrote: When I composed the first message, I had in mind the olden days when I often (not always ;) made a bootable floppy when I made a new kernel. That bootable floppy booted off of the exact same kernel, except a different copy residing on

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2007 07:37 PM, helices wrote: Thank you, all, for your insights. When I composed the first message, I had in mind the olden days when I often (not always ;) made a bootable floppy when I made a new kernel. That bootable floppy booted off of the exact same kernel, except a different

rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread helices
I have several rather complex debian systems, including software raid 5 and lvm, c. Occasionally, in the past, I have upgraded a debian system, after which it no longer boots successfully. Unfortunately, for these complex systems, neither the install/boot media, nor knoppix, result in access to

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page). It has all

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread helices
* Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:09:28:16:18:26-0700] scribed: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2007.09.28 21:25, helices wrote: Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:09:28:16:18:26-0700] scribed: If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/28/2007 09:25 PM, helices wrote: * Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:09:28:16:18:26-0700] scribed: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:27:02PM -0500, helices wrote: So, going forward, I want to incorporate generation of bootable rescue cd's into my upgrade processes. Clearly, such a cd will exactly duplicate my last successful boot, and give access to ALL files and filesystems. [1] What is the