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From: "Grant Peel" <grant@thenetnow.com>
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Subject: Bootable
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:07:27 -0500
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Hi all,

I have, what I hope to be, a simple question.

I have a server with two hard drives. SCSI. Using driver da.

When I originaly installed FreeBSD (4.7). I am sure I made bot disks
bootable.

I rsync the forst drive to the second every time I update the OS.

My question is:

Is there a way, from the command line, that I can check file etc to see if
the second drive is indeed bootable in the event the first drive dies.
(Bootable after I change the boot device in BIOS of course).

I live 200 miles from the server, so sitting at the console changing back
and forth testing is not practical.


-Grant

Grant W. Peel
Server Admin
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