Friday, May 10, 2013

HP-UX: HOW TO BOOT FROM TAPE EFI ITANIUM

Keep in mind that some servers do not support booting from tape, or may require a firmware update to support booting from tape.

Exit from the boot menu to the EFI Shell

fs0:\> reconnect -r

Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5704) is detected (PCI-X)
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5704) is detected (PCI-X)
HP 2Port 2Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (driver 1.42, firmware 3.03.150)
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5703) is detected (PCI-X)
HP 2Gb Fibre Channel Combo Adapter (driver 1.30, firmware 3.03.171)
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5703) is detected (PCI-X)
Scsi(Pun0,Lun0) HP      MSL6000 Series  0520 ( 20 MBytes/sec)
Scsi(Pun1,Lun0) HP      Ultrium 3-SCSI  G63W (320 MBytes/sec)
ReconnectController(0,0,0) : Status = Success

From this we gather that the Ultrium 3 Tape Drive is Pun1, Lun0.

At this point exit from the shell... returning you to the boot menu.  At this point enter the boot configuration menu and boot from a file if you want a one time boot and look for result of your reconnect -r output... in my case it was Pun1, Lun0.

Boot menu showed the device as follows:
Device Path Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,700)/Pci(1|1)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)

Other helpful commands would be:
devtree, devices, map
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