[Discussion] Backup & restore of bootable partitions

[Steven Levine]

In <19740414223344.0FB436153420717D at priv-edmwaa04.telusplanet.net>, on
02/17/09
   at 04:58 PM, "Dave Yeo" <daveryeo at telus.net> said:

Hi Dave,

>As far as I know sysinstx just updates a pointer to point to the location
>of the kernel. Not sure if the pointer is in the MBR or where. The warp
>v4 one should work though I have never tested.

Not quite.  Sysinstx is just a wrapper that determines the filesystem type
and calls the proper entry point in the selected U*FS.DLL.  This entry
point writes the boot loader to the first track of the volume and writes
os2boot to disk.

This data is pretty much constant for a given filesystem type.

If the boot loader gets damaged, what you can do is run sysinstx from any
places that is convenient.  As long as sysinstx can find the U*FS.DLL, you
can run it from anywhere.

It's easy enough to copy sysinstx from the installation media to someplace
where it can be run conveniently.

>You could always use something like DFSee and make an image of the drive
>to avoid needing sysinstx

This is true.


Regards,

Steven

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