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- From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Problem with restoring from system backup on AIX 3.2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.194259.9076@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell Theory Center
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:42:59 GMT
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- This is an inane question, but I've been beating my head against the wall
- all week trying to figure out why this won't work. Basically I've done
- your ye olde generic mksysb via smit of an AIX 3.2 system that I'm setting
- up. The backup's being stored on 8mm tape, just /dev/rmt0.1 on the system.
- This backup is of a freshly-built system; I'm working on installing a lot
- of software and want a working bootable system backup before I go on.
-
- Now, when I boot from the tape (to verify that the backup indeed worked,
- i.e. re-install the entire system from the backup tape), I get the following
- messages (this is before the install menu comes up and after it asks me
- to press '1' on the console):
-
- INIT: EXECUTING /sbin/rc.boot 2
- AIX Base Operating System Installation...
- Restoring Base Operating System install files from tape: /dev/rmt0.1
-
- /sbin/rc.boot: /usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain: not found
-
- INIT: single user mode
-
- And then leaves me with a root shell with no filesystems mounted, no
- path, no nothin'. Note that the file "/usr/lpp/bosinst/bosmain" is not
- on the original system that I backed up.
-
- Obviously, this is quite perplexing, as the procedures involved are all
- "by the book". Can someone tell me what's going on and how to work around
- the problem? I can provide more information if needed.
-
- Thanks a lot,
- mdw
-
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- Matt Welsh mdw@tc.cornell.edu +1 607 253 2737
- Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
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