Boot from Ignite Recovery DVD

[Bram Vermeulen]

Greetings,

I successfully (I think/thought) created a recovery DVD using this guide:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6440/ch11s04.html

thinking it would create a bootable recovery DVD.


However, it appears it just created an Installation DVD (as it says in the guide). Because when I want to boot from it it gives me the installation menu but also prompts me to fill in all sorts of information (like system info, file system info, etc) which is what I don't want.

I would like to create a bootable DVD that recovers my settings and file system information.

I've read a thread that mentions creating it from an existing bootable tape, but I do not have a tape drive connected to my HP-UX system.

How do I create a bootable recovery DVD?

Thanks in advance,

Bram

[Peter Godron]

Bram,
did you read the earlier threads:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=971661
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=952464

[Pete Randall]

Bram,

By any chance was the initial backup made with the "-I" option?


Pete

[Bram Vermeulen]

@ Peter:
I have read the first thread (http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=971661), however it does mention make_media_install but I don't think that will work in my situation. It is my understanding that make_media_recovery requires a connected DVD/CD writer just like make_tape_recovery requires a connected tape writer.

I had to use make_sys_image because I needed to transfer the ISO file to my workstation and burn it on DVD there. Much like the person in this (http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=981926) thread. But he did have a tape recovery to create it from. Which I don't.

I've just read the second thread, and I think this too starts from the situation where you have a tape writer or tape backup ready to start from, which I don't. Also, on my burnt image I can find the archive. I just think I followed the wrong guide (created an install instead of a recovery like it says in the first thread).

@Pete:
I followed the complete guide I posted in my first post so I used these commands:
/opt/ignite/data/scripts/make_sys_image \
-s local -d /var/tmp/image/archives \
-n B.11.23_archive.gz

and

/opt/ignite/bin/make_medialif -a -r B.11.23 \
-f /opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.23/config \
-f /var/tmp/image/B.11.23.archives.cfg \
-l /var/tmp/image/B.11.23.lifimage

and

/opt/ignite/lbin/mkisofs \
-D -R -U -max-iso9660-filenames \
-no-emul-boot \
-b EFI_CD_image \
-eltorito-alt-boot \
-no-emul-boot \
-b B.11.23.lifimage \
-o /var/tmp/B.11.23.iso \
/var/tmp/image

I'm guessing you only wanted to know if I used the -I option in the make_sys_image command but I added the others incase I misunderstood. I never used any -I option though.

Thanks for the extremely fast responses!

[Bram Vermeulen]

On a further note, I get the same menu as the person in this thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1033994

but when I pick "Guided installation" it still prompts me to enter all the info needed and instead of creating the different logical volumes it only creates one main logical volume.

[Bram Vermeulen]

After reading information about make_media_install (which was the mentioned solution in the first thread Peter suggested I read) here http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-7970/5991-7970.pdf
I noticed it did the same thing make_sys_image did only simplified, so won't that result in the same problem? Namely getting me an installation DVD that prompts me to enter all the information instead of one that recovers automatically?

[Bram Vermeulen]

I kinda found the solution to my problem, I had to choose no interaction installation method, but there's another problem now. I'll make a new thread for that problem though.