Re: Help booting new drive after restore.

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:15:00 GMT

In article <z9KdnbO8Qd-AGYXdRVn-jQ@adelphia.com>,
news1.news.adelphia.net <jjr440@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I've been having trouble upgrading the drive in an Openserver 5.0.6 system.
>I don't work with Openser systems very often and can't seem to get things
>restored correctly. The situation is that the current drive, a 20GB IDE, was
>setup incorrectly in Openserver. It's setup in the BIOS as a 20GB drive, but
>as a 1.5GB drive in Openserver and it's running out of room in /root. I'm
>trying to install a 40GB drive and restore from tape, but cannot get the
>system to boot with the new drive.
>
>So far I've tried the following:
>
>1. Restoring using the recovery floppies provided by the vendor with their
>automated recovery script.
>
>2. Making system specific boot and root floppies, manually creating the
>partition and filesystems with "MKDEV HD -i", restoring from tape (I've
>verified that the files are restoring to the correct locations and that
>/STAND exists and /dev/boot is mounted to it during unified restores), and
>attempting to make the drive bootable with "/bin/dparam -w", "/bin/dd
>if=/etc/hdboot0 of=/dev/hd0a", and "/bin/dd if=/etc/hdboot1 of=/dev/hd0a
>bs=1k seek=1".
>
>3. Making both unified and separate /boot and /root backups and restoring
>them using alternate drive geometries (defined as 4GB or 8GB in BIOS and
>during partition setup) in case it was a problem with the parition or drive
>extending beyond cylinder 1023.
>
>None of this is working. All I get is NO OS when I try to boot from the hard
>disk. Can anyone clue me in on what I'm doing wrong?

One of the SuperTar programs will have all the utilites you need
to be able to put in a new disk, stamp the proper OS parameters,
make the correct file systems, and load and go.

With those you can be loading from tape onto a brand new drive in
under 5 minutes. Look at BackupEdge at microlite.com or
LoneTar at cactus.com. I have sites on both.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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