Reinstalling Dell utility partition on PE2850

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:17:37AM +0200, sean finney wrote:
> hi david,
> 
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:33 +1000, Billinghurst, David (RTATECH) wrote:
> > Working my way through the docs, I have found the partition image as 
> > /server_assistant/pe2850/upimg.bin on the "Installation and Server
> > Management CD".
> > 
> > 1. How to I write this image to the partition /dev/sda1?
> > 
> > 2. Can I do it without shutting the server down?
> 
> yes, as long as (1) your current system does not need sda1 (i.e. you can
> unmount it if you're using it) and (2) you didn't change the size of
> sda1 (or at least not shrink it).
> 
> if those are both true, you should be able to (after unmounting, etc)
> just dd the file over the partition like:
> 
> dd if=upimg.bin of=/dev/sda1
> 
> and when it's done, it should be there like it was before.

Sorry, incorrect in several aspects.

upimg.bin is a zip file of UP contents, not a binary image you can dd.

It is possible to write the UP image under linux, but it is intricate
and not easy. Especially editing the partition boot record. Best way is
to make sure that the partition type is still "0xDE" and then boot to
Server Assistant and use the System Tools -> Create UP option.

--
Michael