topic Re: Boot disk in Operating System - Linux

Boot disk

M.Thomas — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:27:55 GMT

Hi Admins,
I want to create a boot cdrom in RHEL 4 like Ghost in Windows , Ignite-Ux in HPUX.
If my root disk get corrupted , i want to boot through this cdrom and restore them .
Pls give me ur suggestion
Thanks in Advance

Thanks & Regards
Thomas

Re: Boot disk

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:59:34 GMT

- you can use Mondo/Mindi rescue http://www.mondorescue.org/.

- Norton Ghost works in the most cases

- there is g4u http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Re: Boot disk

Alexander Chuzhoy — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:00:39 GMT

Hm, ghost in Windows creates an image and in case of repairing with Ghost - you simply replace the content of your hard ddrive or some specific partition with the content of the image (while wiping out the existing data).
You can also use Ghost to create/restore image of harddrive with Linux partitions (I had).
You can also repair problems of RHEL OS or file system by booting from the first installation CD into rescue mode (type "linux rescue" in the prompt).
Find more info here:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-x86-bootloader.html#S2-X86-BOOTLOADER-RESCUE

Re: Boot disk

Ivan Krastev — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:03:07 GMT

Use ghost4linux (g4l) - http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/2005/105041202.asp

regards,
ivan

Re: Boot disk

George Liu_4 — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:12:51 GMT

The first RHEL disk could allow you to boot and login into the single user mode to do maintenance. Most of time, that is enough.