Re: Booting AIX from LTO Tape Drive

From: Wesley Joyce (wjoyce@UVI.EDU)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 15:57:37 EDT


On a 650 running 5.2, I was able to boot from a 4MM sysback then change the
installation media to the LTO drive in a 3581. Also, sysback allows you to
make a boot CD or tape instead of having to make a 'real' sysback with data
on it.

At 03:36 PM 5/30/2003, you wrote:

>I've heard that some other Unixes (non-AIX) cannot boot from LTO tape. Can
>anyone on this list verify if booting from LTO is possible with AIX 4.3 and
>5L (both mksysb and sysback boot capability). I could not find anything on
>this in the LTO RedBooks.
>
>Thanks.
>
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