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Re: How to use /altroot?
From: Olaf Schreck (chakl
syscall.de)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 18:32:16 CDT
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> I followed the steps in man afterboot to enable backing up the root
> partition to /altroot and it works. sd0a is copied to sd1a.
>
> I was hoping that all I had to do to enable booting off the backup drive
> (sd1) would be to switch the bootable drive in the scsi controller to ID
> 1 from 0. I doesn't boot.
Me neither, but I might throw error messages :)
> As a test I installed OBSD 3.5 directly to sd1 and booted from it and
> that works fine. What's needed to make sd1a bootable after dd runs on
> /altroot?
A decent sed in /altroot/etc/fstab ? the "/" entry..
> This is the message I get when trying to boot sd1a after a backup as
> /altroot. sd1 and sd0 are not identical disk drives.
Works for me on 3.4/sparc
ciao,
chakl
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