From: Joe Brancaleone (joe@nitech.com)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 17:13:53 EST
Quick update:
I can finally make images that fit on a single CD and can boot off the
CD, however I still have a problem: When I tested the actual recovery
process onto another HD, the process hangs (with continual activity
happening between the CD and disk) right after downloading mini-system,
at the step "Loading_software: Begin". With a break signal
(Ctrl-backslash) I can break out of that hang which gives me the
following: "Error: Could not load scripts from the tape", and then
proceeds to install boot area, swap, lvm config backups, and loads the
archive source. Some other errors show up later on in the process, such
as "/opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall is not present or is not executable",
"Error: cannot find the utility lifcp", "inx_postload failed, exit 1"
etc until it says "Loading_software: Error", but then builds and loads
the kernel successfully, and reboots. Booting off the recovered disk is
completely impossible.
Does anyone know what scripts Ignite-UX is talking about that can't be
loaded?
As far as responses I got so far, the following "IgniteUX Boot CD
Creation Cookbook" was forwarded to me by "tonyc1968", which I've been
using. I use cdrecord to burn the image.
regards,
joe
------------------------------------------------
IgniteUX Boot CD Creation Cookbook
-------------------------------------------------
create golden_image:
--------------------
make_net_recovery -A -v -s <server_name> -a <archive_server:archive_dir>
on <archive_server>: mv "2001-07-10,10:33" <golden_image_name>
create and edit config files:
-----------------------------
cp /opt/ignite/data/examples/core11.cfg /var/opt/ignite/bootcd.cfg <---
for 10.20 use core.cfg !!
chmod u+w /var/opt/ignite/bootcd.cfg
save_config -f /var/opt/ignite/<hostname.hwconf>
chmod u+w /var/opt/ignite/<hostname.hwconf>
change bootcd.cfg:
------------------
- at sw_source "core archive":
load_order = 0
source_format = archive
source_type = "DSK"
change_media = FALSE
- commend out everything concerning nfs_source, ftp_source and remsh_source
- at init sw_sel "golden image - 32 bit OS" (or init sw_sel "golden
image - 64 bit OS"):
archive_type = gzip tar
archive_path="<golden_image_name>" <------- only golden_image name, not path !!
- put output of "/opt/ignite/lbin/archive_impact -t -g /.../<golden_image_name>
in place of what is written in the "impacts" part
create CD image
---------------
lvcreate -L XXX /dev/vgXX
(This size may vary depending on golden image size. Check the size of
the golden image after make_net_recovery and then create a filesystem
which is about 50MB bigger then the golden image)
newfs -F hfs -f 2048 /dev/vgXX/rlvolXX <------ ensuring that we use 2048
fragment sz !!
mkdir /image
mount /dev/vgXX/lvolXX /image
cp <golden_image_name> /image
umount /image
dd if=/dev/vgXX/rlvolXX of=/.../cd_image bs=1024k <--- here you need
a filesystem with enough space !! (around twice the size of the golden image)
make_medialif -f /var/opt/ignite/<hostname.hwconf> -f /var/opt/ignite/bootcd.cfg -l
/.../uxinstall (uxinstall=lifheader)
/opt/ignite/lbin/instl_combine -F /.../uxinstall -C /.../cd_image
-> Then burn cd_image to the CD. You can use cdrecord for that on HPUX.
-> I did it successfully with Nero Burning Rom 5.5.4.0
To burn the CD from Nero do;
1. Open Nero - Burning Rom
2. Close any windows that open within Nero.
3. File -> Burn Image
4. Select image file
5. Type of Image: DATE MODE 1
6. Change blocksize to 2048 (2k which HP uses to boot off)
7. Select RAW DATE
7. Go!
END OF COOKBOOK
Joe Brancaleone wrote:
> Hello HP-UX gurus,
>
> I've been in the frisbee-making business trying to get a bootable CD
> to actually boot, based on the steps suggested in earlier posts, but I
> don't know where in the multi-step process I'm messing up. I'm
> generally unfamiliar with creating CD images on any Unix platform, so
> it may be a simple error.
>
> Here are the steps I took in making a bootable CD image (i'm going off
> some
> chicken scratch notes i made, hopefully everything important is there).:
>
> # save_config -f /var/tmp/tdconfig vg00
>
> # /opt/ignite/data/scripts/make_sys_image -s local -n myimage.gz -f
> /var/tmp
> /exc_files
>
> (/opt and some other subdirectories were excluded in order to make an
> image that will fit on a 700MB CD-R)
>
> # cp /opt/ignite/data/examples/core.cfg /home/root/config_cd
>
> # chmod u+w /home/root/config_cd
>
> (make necessary changes in config_cd based on make_medialif man page,
> and the archive_impact command)
>
> # /opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif -f /var/tmp/tdconfig -f
> /home/root/config_cd
>
> (creates /var/opt/ignite/local/uxinstlf.recovery)
>
> # cp /var/opt/ignite/local/uxinstlf.recovery
> /var/tmp/cdroot/uxinstlf.recovery
>
> # mv /var/tmp/myimage.gz /var/tmp/cdroot/myimage.gz
>
> # mkisofs -o /var/tmp/cdfs.iso -b uxinstlf.recovery -no-emul-boot
> /var/tmp/cdroot
>
> (creates /var/tmp/cdfs.iso)
>
> # /opt/ignite/lbin/instl_combine -F /var/tmp/cdroot/myimage.gz -C
> /var/tmp/cdfs.iso
>
> (to wrap LIF image and filesystem together)
>
> then i used a GUI utility (xcdroast) to burn /var/tmp/cdfs.iso to
> a writeable cd. if i remember correctly i had to mess with some of the
> settings a few times to get it to burn.
> for bootability options within xcdroast, i was given non-bootable, El
> Torito, and Solaris. i tried first with El Torito and then
> non-bootable (assuming the instl_combine should take care of the
> necessary headers).
> anyway booting off the CD-R failed everytime.
>
>
> Also, typically when i go through the steps to put the excluded files
> ( /opt was
> recommended and looked like a good choice) onto a second CD, i still
> got an
> image that was above 700MB. is there another way to do this or should
> I just
> try to make a finer split between included and excluded files to keep
> them
> on just two CDs?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> regards,
> joe
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