From: Javier González (jgonzalez@conatel.com.uy)
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 11:27:05 EDT
Hello there,
I'm still fighting this issue.
I've been told Itanium systems do not support booting directly from a tape
device.
The trick is to burn a EFI_CD_image file to CD and boot from there and then
choose "media only installation".
I'm doing this without good results.
The image file I've found is 5242880 bytes, is it the correct size ?
When I direct the system to boot from this image it complains with "failed".
Could you confirm the image file is correct in size and if I'm missing some
step.
Thanks,
javier
----- Original Message -----
From: "Javier González" <jgonzalez@conatel.com.uy>
To: "hpux-admin" <hpux-admin@DutchWorks.nl>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:32 PM
Subject: [HPADM] how to boot from dat drive on rx1600
> Hello Admins,
>
> I'm testing an Itanium rx1600 server running HP-UX 11.23.
> I've connected a dat drive and used make_tape_recovery command which run
> smoothly and finished OK.
> What I've could not figured out yet is how to boot the server from the
> tape drive in order to recover the system.
> I am new with this hardware and it is very different from HP 9000
> PA-RISC in which I interrupt the automatic boot and use the PDC boot
> command to boot from the tape device.
> If someone have done their test on this issue and wants to share a tip
> or two, will be very welcome.
>
> thanks in advance,
> javier
>
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