restore the ignite backup on itanium servers

[gany59]

How to restore the ignite backup on itanium servers. In case of pa-risc, we ll give sea to search the boot device. But in itanium how can we find the boot device(tape, disk) and how to boot from the tape.

Can any one explain about that..

10 points for the valuable replies.... :)

Thanks in advance folks!
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[Jose Mosquera · Accepted solution]

Hi again,

You need to interrupt the boot to invoke the
EFI boot manager interfase.

Inside of EFI Boot Manager select EFI-Shell option into Boot Menu.

At EFI shell execute:
Shell> reconnect -r

In this point you must identify the SCSI device associated at the tape that you needs read from, i.e:
Shell> reconnect -r
Scsi(Pun1,Lun0) HP Ultrium 2-SCSI F60D (160 MBytes/sec)
HP Smart Array 6400-128 Controller (version 2.68) 1 Logical Drive
ReconnectController(0,0,0) : Status = Success

Now reload the EFI boot manager interfase to boot from the desired device, to do this execute at the EFI Shell:
Shell> reset

When the EFI boot manager is realoaded select "Boot Configuration" from Boot Menu. Then "Boot from file" option and select the correct device from list.

Wait until a keyboard layout menu appear, at this point you must select your preferred keyboard map (is just for this volatile sesion).

After these steps your system must be bboting from your ignite tape.

Rgds.

[gany59]

Thanks Jose,

After that how can we proceed further to restore the ignite to the server.

[Jose Mosquera]

Is heavy to explain by a post, please take a look here:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/index.html

Rgds

[Bill Hassell]

The is the latest manual:

http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01942571/c01942571.pdf

[Torsten.]

Most servers support tape boot, but you need to create a boot entry in boot manager (boot up menu).

Most ia64 servers also support the "dbprofile" command in EFI, so you can easy boot from network.

See "help dbprofile" in UEFI.

[Wim Rombauts]

We still use dual-boot for the ignite restore on our Itanium systems. Our systems have the same Ignite version installed as on the latest boot DVD's we have.

If we need to ignite a system, we boot from the DVD, and during the install procedure, there is an option to switch to tape and load the ignite backup.

[D.Blond]

Here is my procedure.
Regards.