From: James Jackson (James.Jackson@MAIL.STATE.AR.US)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 16:38:12 EDT
The ability to boot LTO drives may depend on the connection fabric.
Direct-attached SCSI will work, but SAN-attached fiber may not.
Regards,
James Jackson
-----Original Message-----
From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:tsarver.IFMC@SDPS.ORG]
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:11 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Booting AIX from LTO Tape Drive
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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