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Daniel M. Gonzales
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Setboot on Itanium


I'm trying to set my primary bootpath to my tape device. I didn't have any problems doing it on a PA-RISC machine (11.23), but I'm getting the following error on my Itanium machine.

//> setboot -p 1/0/0/3/1.1.0
setboot: error accessing boot path - Invalid argument
//>

Any ideas? Something different on Itanium? Thanks.
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Arunvijai_4
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Re: Setboot on Itanium

Hello,

May be this thread can help you,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=229909

-Arun
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Geoff Wild
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Re: Setboot on Itanium

is there a tape in the drive?
Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make all your paths straight.
Daniel M. Gonzales
Frequent Advisor

Re: Setboot on Itanium


Yep, tape in device...

//> ioscan -nkfC tape
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=======================================================================
tape 0 1/0/0/3/1.1.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP C5683A
/dev/rmt/0m /dev/rmt/0mnb /dev/rmt/c3t1d0BESTn /dev/rmt/c3t1d0DDSb
/dev/rmt/0mb /dev/rmt/c3t1d0BEST /dev/rmt/c3t1d0BESTnb /dev/rmt/c3t1d0DDSn
/dev/rmt/0mn /dev/rmt/c3t1d0BESTb /dev/rmt/c3t1d0DDS /dev/rmt/c3t1d0DDSnb
//> < /dev/rmt/0m
//> dd if=/dev/rmt/0m bs=16k count=1
VOL1HP0129 30+1 records in
0+1 records out
//>

Bharat Katkar
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Re: Setboot on Itanium

Hi,
The thread below shud help.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=992922

Regards,
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Geoff Wild
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Re: Setboot on Itanium

I don't think you can set the primary boot path on Itanium to be a tape device from setboot - I think you have to do that from the Boot Console Handler using the pf command...

Can you try alternate?

setboot -a 1/0/0/3/1.1.0

I guess the other question is - why would you want the tape to be primary?

Rgds...Geoff

Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make all your paths straight.
Lolupee
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Re: Setboot on Itanium

You cannot set boo tfrom a tape. You can however, boot from CD and redirect to continue using tapoe device.

Itanium servers do not support buting from tape.

Boot from CD while the tape is there and redict you booting to tape at boot up.
Daniel M. Gonzales
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Re: Setboot on Itanium


Thanks for the responses guys. The reason for setting my primary bootpath to tape is so I can test my Ignite tapes, without having to stare at the console, interrupt the boot process (10-second window), and then re-direct to tape. After I'm done testing the tape, then I reboot and change the primary bootpath back to disk.

So setboot will not work for a tape device on IPF? I'm stuck staring at the console?
Mridul Shrivastava
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Re: Setboot on Itanium

On itanium booting from tape is not supported, the only way u can do is to boot from recovery CD and then from there u select tape to boot.
So like PA-RISK it's not supported in Itanium.
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Daniel M. Gonzales
Frequent Advisor

Re: Setboot on Itanium

Thanks for the confirmation, appreciate it.