Storix Software SBAdmin Linux System Recovery Guide - Manual (Page 32)

Storix System Backup Administrator 32 Version 8.2 Linux System Recovery Guide
e. The raid option is needed only on systems with disks previously containing software RAID
devices, but will be ignored otherwise.
Depending on the firmware of your network adapter, you may be provided the option of entering the
client and server IP address (and optional gateway address). If your boot server is configured with your
network adapter hardware (MAC) address, you may perform a broadcast boot without entering the IP
addresses. If not, you will need to enter this information. If you are booting across a gateway, you must
enter the client, server and gateway addresses (in which case a broadcast boot is not possible).
Tape Boot
Tape boot IBM POWER (System p) and System i (CHRP) systems from the Open Firmware prompt:
1. CHRP systems initiate a boot from tape directly from OpenFirmware (OF) without a boot loader. You
must specify the OF device name to boot from as well as all necessary kernel command-line options at
the OF prompt. For some devices (like disk and network), there often is an alias established in OF that
points to the OF device name. This is because the OF device name is rather lengthy and complicated
and the device can be referred to as “disk” or “network”. To illustrate, in the example we will use below,
the OF device name for the tape device is:
/pci@80000002000000b/pci@2,2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/st@2,0
Unfortunately, our experience shows that tape drives rarely have an alias set up. The alias for the tape
drive in our example will be “tape”. If you perform tape boots often, you may want to set up this alias.
To determine the OF device name of the tape drive:
Select “Select Boot Options” from the SMS “Main Menu”
Select, “Select Install/Boot Device” from the “Multiboot menu”
Select, “List all Devices” from the “Select Device Type” menu
Select the “Device Number” of the tape drive.
Select “Information” for the task to perform.
This will present an information screen that will provide details about the tape drive, including the
OpenFirmware device name.
SMS 1.6 (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000,2005 All rights reserved.
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Device Information
/pci@80000002000000b/pci@2,2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/st@2,0
: (Bootable)
DEVICE : SCSI Tape
( loc=U7879.001.DQDHZDC-P1-C4-T1-L2-L0 )
NAME : st
DEVICE-TYPE : byte
Parent Information
IBM,FW-ADAPTER-NAME: Dual Ultra-320
NAME : scsi
DEVICE-TYPE : scsi-2
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Navigation keys:
M = return to Main Menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key:
In this example the OF device name is: