[cobalt-developers] RaQ-Boot from diskette

[Jörg Jan Münter <support@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi out there,

we run several RaQ4r and RaQ XTR. During the last year we had some hard breakdowns of RaQ4r due to ioverheating, powwer
supply failure and things like that we never had a harddrive failure. And as everybody knows servers onyl fail Friday or Saturday night
and never during regular office working time.

Now i think about an emergency solution to get up a crashed Raq again by putting the harrdrives in a PC with Intel eepro and ALI
chipset and so on and booting this by diskette. The idea is to keep the system up this way until we got a replacement RaQ. After
the replacement arrived the harddrives shall be put in there.

But thats the problem: i tried lilo and loadlin but was not able to boot the system on a pc. Also i checked the partion table and it
seems to me to be really wired with overlapping partitions and things like that. Anyway i could mount /dev/hda1 in a standard linux
system to i could read /etc/fstab, /etc/raidtab. And it seems that vmlinuz.gz is not packed. As i am not an expert in bootloaders
i don't know how to go on.

Has anybody tried somethings like this? Or has anybody any idea?

Yours
	Jan*

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