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- From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
- Subject: Re: Problem with restoring from system backup on AIX 3.2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.151948.12083@selway.umt.edu>
- Organization: University of Montana
- References: <1992Nov6.194259.9076@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:19:48 GMT
- Lines: 38
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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.
- >
- I'm not sure why bosmain would not have been on the original system when
- you backed it up. It sure should have been. The bosmain script is your
- interface into the restore menu. If it's not there (along with all the
- rest of the bosinst utilities), I don't belive there is any way to
- recover except to create bootable floppies *with the bosinst scripts
- installed* and point to the 3rd file on the backup tape to get the
- mksysb tar file.
-
- Charlie McGuire
- Systems Programmer
- The University of Montana
- mcguire@huckle.cs.umt.edu
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