Itanium - make tape recovery

[Joe Profaizer]

Just completed my first make_tape_recovery on an rx4640. Is there something different on recoverying Itanium vs PA-RISC, using make_tape_recovery DAT tapes? See message below:
You are about to create an Itanium-based recovery tape. To recover
the system using this tape, you must perform 'two-step media recovery'
where the boot media (CD or DVD) has the same version of Ignite-UX as
the version on this tape.


On PA-RISC recoveries, I only needed the DAT tape.

Please advise,

Thanks,

.>Joe

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Joe,

That is correct. Itanium servers DO NOT CURRENTLY support booting directly from tape. You must boot from the DVD, and at the appropriate point select to install from tape.

See the following for more information on this:

Title: Ignite errors booting from Itanium recovery tape (indirect boot)
Document ID: KBRC00017421
Last Modified Date: 10/14/05
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000081475540

Also:
June 2005 (B2355-90875) Ignite-UX Admistrator's Guide documents:
Chapter 9
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90893/index.html
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90893/ch09.html
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90893/ch09s09.html

[Arunvijai_4]

Some good threads to read on,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=883638
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=56335

-Arun