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- From: paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Restoring root partition dumps
- Message-ID: <1ilma6INNscf@parlo.hal.COM>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 05:03:02 GMT
- References: <1359@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1ikofaINNrmm@parlo.hal.COM> <1362@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1362@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim
- Jagielski) writes:
- >paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1359@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim
- >>Jagielski) writes:
- >
- >>>I think to do this right, you'd need to make the "backup" partition as a
- >>>/usr-type file system (using 'dp')... When you need to boot up with it,
- >>>use A/UX Startup's 'dp' to change it to 'Root&Usr' file system and change
- >>>your "real" Root file system to something else (/usr-type)...
- >>>
- >>>A/UX Startup should bootup from the backup partition.
- >
- >>Or, you can use Apple's HD setup to create more than one root partition
- >>and select the proper one from the A/UX Startup's Preferences menu.
- >
- >I doubt it... HD Setup will create the two file systems and give both of
- >them a slice # of 0... Thus, there would be no way for A/UX Startup
- >to know which slice0 to use. That's the reason for keeping the backup
- >and something like Free User (slice 3) and then resetting it to Root
- >(slice 0) only when needed.
-
- Jim is correct, and I was in error when I claimed that Apple's HD setup
- program would create two root partitions. It does not permit that. However,
- I do believe that using dp and giving two partitions a name of "UNIX Root
- slice 0" and type "Apple_UNIX_SVR2" will work. The A/UX startup program
- requires a slice (partition) number, so this is how it decides which slice0
- to use. The boot and in_use flags have to be set properly, by the way.
-
- As an aside: I really do have two root partitions, but they are on two
- different disks. I remember having major hassles with getting a small
- disaster recover partition built, but that turned out to be an HFS partition.
- I was able to get two of them to work; I created the two HFS partitions with
- the software provided with my disk, then using Apples software to create the
- A/UX partitions. Now I have two bootable HFS partitions on one drive, and I
- can launch A/UX from either one. And both can be mounted on the desktop
- under A/UX.
-
- For the curious, this is how my backup root partition is configured:
-
- DPM Index: 4
- Name: "UNIX Root slice 0", Type: "Apple_UNIX_SVR2"
- Physical: 40000 @ 200128, Logical: 40000 @ 0
- Status:
- valid alloc in_use not boot
- read write
- Slice 0 (clustered)
- Regular UNIX File System (1)
- Cluster: 0 Type: RFS Inode: 1
- Made: [0] Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
- Mount: [0] Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
- Umount: [0] Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
- No mount point
- No AltBlk map
-
- And this is my normal boot root:
-
- DPM Index: 3
- Name: "A/UX_Root", Type: "Apple_UNIX_SVR2"
- Physical: 307462 @ 101077, Logical: 307462 @ 0
- Status:
- valid alloc not in_use not boot
- read write
- Slice 0 (clustered)
- Regular UNIX File System (1)
- Cluster: 0 Type: RFS Inode: 1
- Made: [0] Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
- Mount: [0] Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
- Umount: [0] Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
- No mount point
- No AltBlk map
-
-
- Yeah, it looks strange; the real root partition that is mounted has the
- "no in_use" indicator. This is the output of dp as invoked on slice 31
- on my disks. Both of these partitions boot, by the way.
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