topic Re: itanium EFI partition initialization in Integrity Servers

itanium EFI partition initialization

rocke robertson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:37:56 GMT

What is the difference between efi_fsinit and mkboot -e? Do they do the same thing?

According to the man page, you can't do anything to an EFI slice until you have run this command. But the docs on how to setup a mirror, create an EFI don't show this command.

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801/?ciid=00089099cee021109099cee02110275d6e10RCRD

Thanks in advance.

Re: itanium EFI partition initialization

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:35:22 GMT

Hi,

The efi_fsinit is used to to initialize the FAT filesystem on the EFI partition

The mkboot command is used to set up the boot area. Specify the -e and -l options to copy EFI utilities to the EFI partition, and use the device special file for the entire disk

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1236/When_Good_Disks_Go_Bad_WP.pdf

chapter
Mirroring the Root Volume on Integrity Servers

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: itanium EFI partition initialization

rocke robertson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:40:45 GMT

Thank you, makes sense.

(Buy why on earth have a FAT filesystem..?)

Re: itanium EFI partition initialization

Dennis Handly — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:01:01 GMT

>Buy why on earth have a FAT filesystem?

Integrity servers run HP-UX, Linux, Windows, OpenVMS, NonStop. EFI probably also works for x86.

Re: itanium EFI partition initialization

rocke robertson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:20:01 GMT

I worked on vms on a Vax 4000, no FAT partition. Actually, its still running fine. I worked on HP-UX on C,D,L and N class, no FAT (as far as I know?). Lots of Linux, and as far as I know they didn't use a FAT partition. Used the ext$X filesystems. maybe they needed FAT to boot? Only Unix I can remember that used to use FAT was Xenix.

Darn computers.

Re: itanium EFI partition initialization

Dennis Handly — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:46:45 GMT

>I worked on vms on a Vax 4000

You forgot Windows and Intel. They do what they know. :-)