mksysb recovery problems

From: David Zarnoch (David.Zarnoch_at_BISYS.COM)
Date: 07/21/04

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    Date:         Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:18:45 -0500
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Folks,

    We are trying to recover a box from a mksysb.

    We first tried to boot off the mksysb but it failed

    Then we tried to boot off CDROMs then access the
    mksysb but we got an error indicating that the operating
    system was different between the CDROMs and the mksysb
    (we suspect that the former admin used personal CDs to
    create the operating system that do not match the level
    we are using presently)

    Is there anything we can try?

    My boss is pretty hot about this...
    :0(

    Thanks!

    Dave Zarnoch
    david.zarnoch@bisys.com

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