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тАО11-18-2004 11:31 AM
тАО11-18-2004 11:31 AM
I try the idea. It works with systems of exact same model. With systems of different models, boot fails to find the bootpath even though these two systems has same hwpath, (different device file names though). Do you think that there will be a way to fix this issue? Or is it something impossible? If it is undoable, what are the reasons? Thanks.
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тАО11-18-2004 11:39 AM
тАО11-18-2004 11:39 AM
Re: Boot a system using a boot disk intalled by another system
Take a low use server, hang some disk off of it and use it as an nfs repository.
what goes in?
make_net_recovery images.
Every HP server or client backs up his configuration once a week. If the boot disk dies, you replace, boot off the Ignite server and rebuild the system quickly and easily.
You've identified the problems with carrying around a disk. I can't see how thats going to work.
Why can't it be done?
1) You can't control customization. The /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file is different on each machine.
2) Mac addresses are different with every NIC card.
3) As you identified it, unlike systems have differnt hadware path and information is stored on the disk to make it bootable that is unique to each system.
You probably can keep boot disks sitting on the array just waiting to be booted off of. You might create these with mirror/ux mirroring and have your systems be dual boot, local disk primary SAN secondary. That depends on whether your system supports that kind of boot.
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тАО11-18-2004 11:42 AM
тАО11-18-2004 11:42 AM
Re: Boot a system using a boot disk intalled by another system
You should be able to solve it by booting into LVM mainteancne mode and going through proceude that Sridhar outlines in this post:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=744022
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тАО11-18-2004 11:43 AM
тАО11-18-2004 11:43 AM
SolutionIt may not work always if you try to boot the bootdisk of one model with another. You may have some luck booting an N-class with a L-class but not a K-class system. So, you may have to prepare a disk per each model. You may have to follow the procedure that I outlined in the following thread in order for you to have a completely operational system.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=744022
-Sri
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тАО11-18-2004 12:03 PM
тАО11-18-2004 12:03 PM
Re: Boot a system using a boot disk intalled by another system
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тАО11-18-2004 12:18 PM
тАО11-18-2004 12:18 PM
Re: Boot a system using a boot disk intalled by another system
Check out docs.hp.com.
-Sri
PS: 0 points please.