Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:03:03 +0100 | From | Eduardo Soriano <> | Subject | How to use SCSI tape during Rescue boot |
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Environment: Linux 2.0.36 RedHat 5.2
When configuring a new system under previous RedHat releases, I used to create a complete backup of the file systems (/, /usr, /tmp, and so on) on a SCSI HP 9GB Tape. Fine.
In case of system crash, I had the possibility to boot using the boot and root floppies, mounting the file systems under /mnt, /mnt/tmp, /mnt/usr and the copying back the backup tape. By the end, a simple lilo installed the boot configuration on the new target disk.
With RH5.2 this is no longer possible. I created a boot floppy using mkbootdisk. Then, using this floppy, I answered during lilo prompt recovery. Fine. At mount root filesystem I inserted the rescue floppy obtained from CD-ROM.
This environment recognize all the hardware components but the /dev/st0 is missing from /proc/devices
So I am not able to reload the backup. I can turn around this problem mounting a disk a creating a mirror copy just in case. But the tape solution is better and cheaper.
????
Thanks
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