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How to make a disk drive for a distant computer

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Roderick Klein:
Always install airboot. I have seen more then once that the system does not boot if you have on primary partition. Do not know why.

Neil Waldhauer:
Thanks for the suggestions. Since the target machine is one of 600 identical machines, I know that it supports the full size of the drives. It doesn't need it, because I'm only trying to restore one 1 GB partition.

I also know that it supports booting from Primary, booting from IBM Boot Manager and booting from AirBoot.

That's a good suggestion about master and slave -- I'll send it along and see what happens.

I'm also thinking of having them try cloning a hard drive using DFSee. Originally, they tried to clone with Ghost. I'm sure most of you are laughing at them for thinking Ghost could clone a drive.

Doug Bissett:

--- Quote from: Roderick Klein on March 22, 2020, 01:57:42 pm ---Always install airboot. I have seen more then once that the system does not boot if you have on primary partition. Do not know why.

--- End quote ---

I have one old DELL, where Air Boot finds some sort of problem. I need to use Boot Manager. If I install Air Boot on the disk, and it fails, I can put that disk in a more modern machine, and it works, so it is a machine problem (probably BIOS isn't capable). However, I do agree that Boot Manager should be used, only as a last resort.


--- Quote ---I also know that it supports booting from Primary, booting from IBM Boot Manager and booting from AirBoot.
--- End quote ---

Any chance that SYSINSTX.COM is needed?

Neil Waldhauer:
That sounds like a possibility. SYSINTX.COM might be needed, but there is no platform to run it. I have an experiment in the works to tell me in another week or so if that was the problem.

ivan:
What results do you get if you write the image to one of your computers?  I know that might sound odd but it does check that you have a bootable image says he who has been caught out that way.

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