Boot disk

[M.Thomas]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

- 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/

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

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

[Ivan Krastev]

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


regards,
ivan

[George Liu_4]

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.