Restoring Hp-Ux Using The Recovery Tape - HP 9000 700 Series Owner's Manual

Restoring HP-UX Using the Recovery Tape

If your operating system or the entire root disk becomes corrupted and not
usable, you can restore your system using your recovery system tape and
your archive backup tape(s). Also see \Booting and Resetting the VXIbus
Mainframe" in Appendix B for information on using the boot ROM to nd and
boot from a recovery tape.
If your operating system is still usable but not functioning correctly, you can
load the leset
You can boot a memory-based version of
/stand/vmunix
cartridge or DDS recovery tape which you have made. From the recovery
system, you can mount and unmount le systems, run
le systems, copy les back onto your system disk, and various other tasks.
Caution
If your system disk (including
/stand/system.prev
1. Verify that the recovery tape is
write access to your recovery tape when you boot it.
2. Load the recovery tape in your tape drive and be sure that the drive is
turned on.
3. Wait for the drive to become ready (the \busy" light remains o ).
4. Reset your computer and start the boot process by pressing the Rst/Abt
8
switch to the \
5. Stop the automatic boot process by pressing
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System Search started
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Press [Esc] to discontinue the Auto Boot process
8-10 Backing Up and Restoring Software
from an update tape to obtain diagnostic utilities.
TOOL
on HP-UX 10 (known as a
Do not run on a le system that is mounted and active.
fsck
This could introduce data corruption. Run
mode when checking the root le system. For le systems other
than the root le system, unmount the le system, run
and then remount the le system.
/SYSBCKUP
on HP-UX 10) is unbootable, do the following:
not write-protected. HP-UX needs to have
" (up) position.
Rst
on HP-UX 9 or
/hp-ux
recovery system ) from the tape
to check and repair
fsck
fsck
on HP-UX 9, or
after the boot message:
4 ESC 5
.
in single-user
,
fsck