"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > I haven't gotten any traction on my 2 previous posts so perhaps it is
> > how I asked the question.
> >
> > RH 7.1
> > Micron NetFrame LV2000 w/ embedded Adaptec 7800 controller & Adaptec
> > 1000 Raid Array controller. 2 SCSI controllers, hard drives were
> > supposed to be RAID 1 (on the Adaptec 1000 Raid Array controller) but
> > both showed on install so I made software raid figuring I could fix
> > later. I thought this odd since I previously had the RAID working on
> > WinNT 4.
> >
> > Post install will not boot from hard drive - screen says something like
> > - unable to load OS
> >
> > Boots from floppy - I want to end that. I need to end that. In the
> > meantime, I need to make a copy of this bootable floppy to protect
> > myself if something should happen to this disk - how do I make a
> > complete copy of this disk?
> >
> >
> Try an easy fix first - boot up Linux, log in as root, and run cfdisk.
> Mark one partition as bootable.  Save changes.  This may fix the
> problem.
----
OK - checked it on mine first - then I logged in remotely to server with
problem.

cfdisk on server with problem - sda1 is already marked as boot (as well
it should be since that is /boot) but of course, the difference between
mine and the remote server, mine has no raid so it shows /boot as the
label - on the remote server - it shows autodetect as label - because it
is md0 of the raid array I would assume. I can't reboot unless it is
after hours and I am there to pop floppy disk out and monitor boot
process but there is nothing to change - of course, I will try it anyway
- writing that. I think I will need next step but I won't be able to
test this step out until tomorrow.
----
> 
> As far as coppying the floppy, try this:
> 
> (put your current disk in drive A:)
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/temp.img
> (change disks)
> dd if=/tmp/temp/img of=/dev/fd0
> 
> Mikkel
> ---------
Thanks for the consideration and very good to see that you're back
amongst us again. Did you get another DSL connection?

Also - I recognize your typo in the second line - when I write from the
temp file to the new floppy.

Craig



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