Making an boot disk with Ignite

[Frans Kolen]

Our system has an second disk which isn't used at this moment. The idea is to boot from this disk when the boot disk crashses. I wonder if it is possible to make an recovery disk instead of an recovery tape wit Ignite

[melvyn burnard]

Why not use MirrorDisk/UX to mirror the primary disc?
This will allow you to run both discs, one being a mirror of the other, and if the primary fails, you either continue to run from th emirror, or you boot the system from the mirror disc

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

The Ignite-UX is for archiving to tape using pax, It is a advisable to use mirror for your disk. Read more from these links:
1.http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x645c7e990647d4118fee0090279cd0f9,00.html
2.http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs.html
3.http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs/diskmirror.pdf

[Rita C Workman]

The preferred thing would be to make your second disk a mirror of the first. This is not hard to do with Mirror-UX and once you've set it up and gotten your drives sync'd you will avoid alot of problems.
If your system should encounter a problem it will automatically go to the mirror and keep right on processing (transparent to end users). You could then get your primary drive fixed and do a resync from the mirror back to the primary.
If you went down you can reboot, then interupt the boot and at the prompt you could enter to boot alt isl (or enter the scsi address-whichever you prefer) and get the system back up until the primary is fixed.
Of course....I still recommend making ignite tapes (make_recovery). You can't be too safe.