Re: boot loader

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:47:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus:

You could theoretically install onto a local system, tar it up, then
unpack it in the unused partition on your remote machine, yes.
However in order to set the new slice bootable you'd have to then
use the disk editor, and if you get even one thing the tiniest bit
wrong, you've bricked it.

Actually, you may be able to talk the 4.x loader into loading and
booting off the created 6.x partition. That would save disk editing.
Still, you only get one shot at it without console access. But you
said you have a serial port, so you could stuff a serial console on
it, which gives you lots more safety. I moved a couple 4.x machines
to 6.x remotely with just a serial console, and I think I only ended
up needing to use the serial console on one machine where I didn't
properly nudge the loader to look in the right place. Sure was glad
to have it there, though.


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