rescue boot disk help

From: Bob The Builder (canwebuildit_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/16/03 

Date: 16 Sep 2003 11:50:06 -0700

I have a backup server that I need to get a good recovery image of. I
need to be able to boot from a floppy or cd and write to either a tape
or NFS mounted file system. The system is a P4 with adaptec 79xx scsi
controller and accraid raid controller. The tape drive is a LTO-2
scsi drive. I only have a serial console. I do not have keyboard or
mouse or monitor attached to the system.

I tried booting from RedHats rescue disk. I can mount my /boot and /
file systems, but I can't write to tape because there is no st module.
 I can bring up the network interface and telnet, ftp etc.. I can not
mount an NFS file system. When I run mount -t NFS
hostname:/filesystem /directory , I get mount failed: No such device.

I tried booting from toms root disk using bz2bzImage
console=ttyS1,115200n8. The system boots but stops durring the boot
process and is unresponsive to the keyboard afterwards. Here is the
ouput of toms root disk boot.

RAMDISK: bzip2 Compressed image found at block 867
aaaiiiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooooooooooooooooooboiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooboiiooooooooooooobfff
bzip2_out:0x00253000
bytes_out:0x00253000
NTFS version 000607
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.29
  kernel build: 2.2.20ext3 unknown
  options: [pci] [cardbus]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xf2f30
  unknown PCI interrupt router 8086:2480
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
  no bridges found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!

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