On Wed February 26 2003 15:06, Seth, Wayne (Contractor) wrote:
>Leonid,
>
>I have been trying to do a complete restore on a Red Hat box for
> some time now.  I haven't been able to figure out a way to access
> my SCSI tape drive from Red Hat rescue mode.  Perhaps I'm missing
> something?
>
>-----Original Message-----
From: Leonid Mamchenkov
> [mailto:f.l.amanda-users AT news.francoudi DOT com] Sent: Wednesday,
> February 26, 2003 11:50 AM
>To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>Subject: Re: Backup and recovery CD
>
>
>Dear "Kevin M. Myer",
>
>Once you wrote about "Backup and recovery CD":
>KMM> failure, being hacked, etc.  I'm wondering if anyone has ever
>KMM> developed something similar for AMANDA.  I'm envisioning
> something KMM> like the Red Hat installer, which boots up, lets
> you drop into a KMM> limited shell and lets you partition disks. 
> The AMANDA bootable CD KMM> would boot up, let you format disks
> and give you a limited shell, KMM> and then let you run amrestore
> by connecting to the tape drive (or KMM> whatever archival media
> you are using) of your remote backup KMM> server.
>KMM>
>KMM> Just curious if anyone has ever gone down this road and if
> so, how KMM> far did you get?
>
>And what's wrong with RedHat rescue mode, since you've mentioned
> it? :)

I can report one problem with that, if he is booting from the 
updated kernel that up2date might have installed.  The updated 
kernel did *not* come accompanied by an updated initrd, and the 
updated kernel is useless for such booting because theres no 
matching version numbered initrd he can load his scsi drivers from.

I know, I let it install it on me, and it over-wrote my grub.conf 
rendering the rest of my custom kernels inactive till I fixed that 
by giving grub a custom command line that did point to a valid for 
my system kernel, and used that to restore my grub.conf.  I have 
not allowed up2date to touch my kernel installs since that fiasco.

A rather heated message to RH at the time was not replied to.

There are many things up2date is good for, but putzing with your 
kernel install isn't one of them.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M
Athlon1600XP@1400mhz  512M
99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly