Boot tape for recovery on ITANIUM

[Alessandro Pilati]

How can I boot from tape ( for a restore of a make_tape_recovery backup ) on an Itanium based server ( rx2600 ) ?

Is it possible from the EFI shell without the installation cd?
Is possible in the EFI shell make the tape driver viewable?
Now I can only see 2 Scsi disks and the DVD.

Or is only possible to boot tape by entering first with the hpux installation CD ?

Thanks to all

[Pat Lieberg]

You can boot to an ignite tape from the shell.

To show devices:

map -r

Then to boot the tape do:

fsn:\install.efi

where fsn is the device to boot from.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Alessandro,

Check this doc.

Document description: How to boot/recover from tape on Itanium
Document id: IA64KBRC00015995

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000076534412

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Torsten.]

Hi Alessandro,

I only know the procedure using the install media, so there seems to be no chance to restore without the installation cd/dvd.
IMHO EFI is not able to handle a tape.

[Pat Lieberg]

I wasn't clear in my first post. You want to boot from the install CD/DVD first, from the EFI shell. Then, you can select the Tape device as the install source from the ignite menus.

It is not possible to boot directly from tape from the EFI menu.

[Alessandro Pilati]

Thank you for the quick and effective answers.

Alessandro