Re: ARUGENT HELP!!
Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 18:29, Tom Cook wrote:
>
> > God that scares me silly, every time I do it...
>
> It does? I don't even bother typing it anymore. I've got a script set up
> to do it all for me, with not a single bit of error checking... :) Just
> remember, rescue root=/dev/hda1 is your friend. :)
>
> And while we're on the subject (and at the risk of getting somewhat OT)
> what's the most "innovative" (read: convoluted) way anyone has of
> updating their mbr for dual boot? I've got a script which will read the
> Linux boot info into a file, ftp it to my DC (which has a repository of
> my last 20 configurations just in case), and execute a reboot. Upon
> reboot, I start the system up in Windows, which has another script that
> runs at start up which (using Cygwin's bash shell) gets the appropriate
> boot file from the DC and writes it to my NTFS C: drive. (Until recently
> I had no FAT partitions, so I had to use the DC for temporary storage,
> which then grew into auto-backup beast that it is now.)
Aye aye aye, and I thought I was scared before... flipping your boot
sectors across the network and *hoping* they come back the same...
AARRGH!!!
I think we have an entrant here for sysadmin disaster of the month:
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/sdotm.html
Tom
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