From: Wesley Joyce (wjoyce@UVI.EDU)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 16:21:30 EDT
Is that an 3580, or higher?
At 04:10 PM 5/30/2003, you wrote:
>We have a p630 running 51 and a couple 6F1's running 433, all of which
>boot off their respective LTO drive(s) - we've gone through several
>mksysb restores in both OS environments without incident.
>
>We also use sysback with these servers, but do not make bootable images -
>so I don't know how that works.
>
>Thanks;
>Theresa
>
> >>> wjoyce@UVI.EDU 05/30/03 02:57PM >>>
>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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