Ignite-UX Installation Booting

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The following table shows the firmware requirements for various HP Integrity systems in order to
support tape boot. All systems support two-step media recovery.
Native Tape Boot by System Model
Model
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Native Tape Boot Minimum Firmware
Revision
rx1600, rx1620 Yes 04.05 or later
rx2600, rx5670 No NA
rx2660 Yes 01.03 or later
rx2620, rx4640 Yes 04.05 or later
rx3600, rx6600 Yes
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Any – supports tape boot
from first release
rx7620, rx8620 Yes 5.0 or later
rx7640, rx8640 Yes Version 2 or later
Superdome (sx1000 based) Yes 7.0 or later
Superdome (sx2000 based) Yes 5.5 or later
cx2620 Yes Any – supports tape boot
from first release
HP Integrity blades No
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NA
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Future HP Integrity systems should support tape boot when they are released and will not be documented in this table, future systems that will
not support tape boot will be listed in this table.
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These systems have no parallel SCSI HBAs on the core I/O. An add-on parallel SCSI HBA is required for native tape boot.
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Itanium(R)-based Blades have no built-in parallel SCSI interfaces and it is not possible to have an add-on parallel SCSI HBA.