Re: Booting AIX from LTO Tape Drive

From: Theresa Sarver (tsarver.IFMC_at_SDPS.ORG)
Date: 05/30/03

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    Date:         Fri, 30 May 2003 16:10:35 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    We have a p630 running 51 and a couple 6F1's running 433, all of which boot off their respective LTO drive(s) - we've gone through several mksysb restores in both OS environments without incident.

    We also use sysback with these servers, but do not make bootable images - so I don't know how that works.

    Thanks;
    Theresa

    >>> wjoyce@UVI.EDU 05/30/03 02:57PM >>>
    On a 650 running 5.2, I was able to boot from a 4MM sysback then change the
    installation media to the LTO drive in a 3581. Also, sysback allows you to
    make a boot CD or tape instead of having to make a 'real' sysback with data
    on it.

    At 03:36 PM 5/30/2003, you wrote:

    >I've heard that some other Unixes (non-AIX) cannot boot from LTO tape. Can
    >anyone on this list verify if booting from LTO is possible with AIX 4.3 and
    >5L (both mksysb and sysback boot capability). I could not find anything on
    >this in the LTO RedBooks.
    >
    >Thanks.
    >
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