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
