topic Boot tape in Operating System - HP-UX

Boot tape

Alex_17 — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:13:42 GMT

Hi,

I need to make a tape just to boot any server.

What is the best way??

Thanks.

Alex.

Re: Boot tape

Craig Rants — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:17:14 GMT

Well, you can't just boot any server, but ignite is the HP way of creating boot tapes. There are a few stipulations like the hardware must be the same etc...

Good Luck,
C

Re: Boot tape

James Beamish-White — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:20:30 GMT

make_recovery as part of ignite is the thing you want I think.

Cheers,
James

Re: Boot tape

Roger Baptiste — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:20:42 GMT

hi,

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recoery -A -v -C -d /dev/rmt/0mn

(or just make_tape_recovery -i to use the interactive mode).

If ignite is not installed , you can download it from the application CD.

HTh
raj

Re: Boot tape

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:20:59 GMT

Hi Alex:

I think what you want is an Ignite recovery tape:

# make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn

For current documentation and software go here:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

The download and installation of Ignite (with 'swinstall') takes very little time and does not require a reboot. You can do this AND have a bootable recovery tape in just a few hours.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Boot tape

harry d brown jr — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:23:32 GMT

To make your life easier, you should create a recovery tape for each server, otherwise you will have to "interact" with each recovery changing ip's, lvm's, boot areas, blah blah blah.

live free or die
harry

Re: Boot tape

Alex_17 — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:23:33 GMT

Thanks for your help.

What we want is to boot the client and then from its Ignite server make a bootsys, but we would like to have only one tape to boot any client (more than 20).

Re: Boot tape

Sanjay_6 — Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:25:17 GMT

Hi Alex,

Ignite make_recovery or make_tape_recovery is the way to go.

Check these links,

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=98281b7814f5240c81/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000047106901

Here is the ignite faq,

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/iux_faq

Here is a link on make_net_recovery

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=98281b7814f5240c81/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000049601163

Hope this helps.

Regds