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- From: payne@eric.austin.ibm.com (Eric Payne)
- Subject: Re: Problem with restoring from system backup on AIX 3.2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.233826.12897@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
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- Organization: IBM, Austin
- References: <1992Nov6.194259.9076@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 23:38:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.194259.9076@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
- >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.
-
- This is strange. The files in the /usr/lpp/bosinst come with the BOS. When
- you did the initial installation of the machine, those files, including
- bosmain, should have been placed in that directory. Either they never got
- placed in that directory, or they were removed later. Either way, the
- system backup which you made using mksysb is no good, since the utilities
- needed to restore it (ie, bosmain et. al) do not exist on the tape.
- --
- Thank you
- Eric Payne
- payne@austin.ibm.com EPAYNE AT AUSVMQ
- These views are strictly my own. Even then, I do not claim responsibility.
-