Dieing or Dead /root disk

david_at_wombat.com
Date: 08/22/04

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    Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:35:51 -0000

    I have an old Indigo2 whose root drive is dieing or maybe even dead. It
    has been doing xfs_repair and scsi reset errors for the last day. It
    also sounds like it is dieing.

    I have data backups on tape. The system also has a second disk drive
    that probably has enough space to hold everything on the root drive
    but the disk is partitioned as one large partition.

    I have but can't find install media.

    I'm wondering what steps I should talk to get the second drive to
    be bootable. Obviously I have to copy stuff over, but will a dump
    restore do the right thing? Also, there is the NVRAM change which
    I have forgotten the details of. The biggest question is if I can
    boot with swap in a file.

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