backup drive bootabel

[Noah]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:00:38 -0500, Jason Stewart wrote
> Noah wrote:
> > FreeBSD 4.8-stable
> > 
> > 
> > I have about three different sources for making a drive bootable.  well I have
> > a  machine with two drives and the second drive is an exact backup of the
> > first.  but I need to make the 2nd drive bootable as well since this drive
> > will be plopped in if the first drive goes bad.  any recommendations on how to
> > do this?

Thanks Jason,

I will consider it.  in the mean time can somebody explain to me how to make
the 2nd drive bootable.  I have seen many different ways to do this.  can you
direct me to the most optimal.  I want to place a boot section that has no
menu and no options.  just load teh kernel and go.

- Noah




> > 
> > Please send me to a good web tutorial if need be.
> > 
> > - Noah
> > 
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> 
> Seems like a good candidate for RAID 1 mirroring to me. See my reply 
> to your "backup drive scheme" message.
> 
> Jason