[rescue] HP9000/715

[Steve Sandau]

I'll try using LVM on the drive *first* then try making it bootable...
At least now I feel like I can mess around with it some since I do know
*one* way to amke it work.

Steve

> Randy Bowie wrote:
> 
> You can boot from any size drive in 10.2 but you have to use LVM on
> drives bigger than 2 Gb.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Sandau [mailto:ssandau at bath.tmac.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:10 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] HP9000/715
> 
> Thanks. I stumbled across the "copy bootstrap" choice in sam, and that
> 
> was the key. I made a bootable filesystem on a 400M drive, and mounted
> 
> the 2G drive as an LVM (have to if > 2G??) to get me almos 2.5G total.
> 
> Since I was able to put all the drives in at once, I just did a cp
> from
> the old noisy drive to the new ones. I had to use two new ones,
> because
> sam complained that it could only make drives < 1G bootable in HP-UX
> 10.20.
> 
> I think I may try again since CDE now won't run at boot time, only by
> hand (dtlogin), and then you can only log in as root. Must have
> boogered
> up permissions somewhere in the cp. (I did a tar of the whole fs
> before,
> and untarred to refill /usr, but it didn't fix it.)
> 
> I still have the old drive intact; maybe I'll try a dump instead of
> tar.
> 
> Thanks, too for the pointer to mkboot.
> 
> Steve
> 
> > Randy Bowie wrote:
> >
> > I would use sam(Disks and File Systems) to make a HFS file
> system("not
> > using LVM") on the 2Gb, I can't remember if there are options to
> make
> > it bootable or not.  If not just run mkboot on the device(e.g.
> mkboot
> > -l /dev/dsk/c0tnd0, see man mkboot).
> >
> > Then mount the 2Gb file system.
> >
> > cd to the mount point.
> >
> > dump 0f - / | restore rf -
> >
> > Now you can test by rebooting, interrupting the boot process, and
> then
> > typing "boot path" where path is the 2 Gb drive(use search if you
> > forgot).
> >
> > Note that dump/restore doesn't care about file system sizes as long
> as
> > there's enough space.  I would take care to use the same type of
> file
> > system.
> >
> > Let me know if I left something out. :)
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > -Randy Bowie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ssandau at bath.tmac.com [mailto:ssandau at bath.tmac.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:42 PM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [rescue] HP9000/715
> >
> > Maybe I'm spoiled by using SPARCs, but I'm having a terrible time
> with
> >
> > an HP9000 box. All I want to do is put the OS on a quiet 2Gb drive,
> as
> >
> > opposed to the noisy 1Gb drive it's on now.
> >
> > I have software, but it's for a 8xx series and only pretends to
> > install.
> > Ignite HP sounds good, but I have yet to be able to boot from one of
> 
> > its
> > "bootable tapes." (Have an old Archive Viper 1/4" cart drive in the
> > box.)
> >
> > I don't quite know enough about dd to copy data that way, and I
> don't
> > know enough about HP's LVM stuff to just copy everything from one
> > drive
> > to the other with a cp command or something. (I can get both SCSI
> > drives
> > in the box at once.)
> >
> > I was even ready to chuck HP-UX all together and run Debian Linux,
> but
> >
> > the "woody" (chuckle) release that supports HP hardware isn't ready
> > yet.
> > The PA Linux bootable CD that I downloaded and burned is only
> > partially
> > bootable. It's recognized, gets through 6 or so lines showing things
> 
> > load, then dies.
> >
> > Anyone have suggestions? Aside from giving you the hardware. ;)
> >
> > Steve
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> --
> Steve Sandau, IS Technician
> TMA Bath, Maine
> ssandau at bath.tmac.com
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Steve Sandau, IS Technician
TMA Bath, Maine
ssandau at bath.tmac.com