Ignite-UX USB Memory Stick Boot

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Table of Contents

About This Document ........................................................................................................................... 2

Intended Audience ............................................................................................................................... 2

Requirements ....................................................................................................................................... 2

Configuring the USB Device with Ignite Boot Content ............................................................................... 2

The Boot Procedure for a USB Memory Stick ........................................................................................... 3

Show Me! The USB Boot Procedure ....................................................................................................... 6

Recovering from Tape after Memory Stick Boot ....................................................................................... 7

Show Me! Recovering From Tape after USB Boot..................................................................................... 9

Appendix A: An Example Script to Configure the USB Device with Ignite Boot Content .............................. 10

Getting the USB memory stick device name ....................................................................................... 11

Summary of content (12 pages)

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Ignite-UX USB Memory Stick Boot Table of Contents About This Document ........................................................................................................................... 2 Intended Audience ............................................................................................................................... 2 Requirements.......................................................................................................................................
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About This Document This white paper illustrates how to configure your Integrity system and a USB flash drive in order to boot HP-UX directly from a memory stick device. Once the system is booted to the HP-UX Ignite-UX install environment, you can perform a variety of install or recovery actions. This document details how you can recover from tape using Ignite-UX. Intended Audience This procedure is for the customer that needs an extremely portable boot device.
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The Boot Procedure for a USB Memory Stick Once you have created your boot memory stick, you can boot from it using the Boot From File option on the EFI Boot Manager menu. The procedure is outlined below: 1. Select Boot Configuration from the EFI Boot Menu: 2.
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3. Select the USB memory stick partition to be booted. This partition will be an EFI system partition on a USB device.
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4. Explore down through the file system to the hpux.efi boot content file and select it for boot. You will need to navigate to the EFI and then the HPUX directories to locate the hpux.efi boot loader program. The system then boots the HP-UX Ignite-UX install environment from the memory stick and starts the Ignite-UX user interface Note: It is technically possible to create a boot menu entry for a USB memory stick that supports HP-UX boot.
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Show Me! The USB Boot Procedure Below is an animated demonstration – clicking anywhere within the demo image will start the animation. Use the player bar at the bottom to control the playback. You will need Adobe Reader 9 to view the demo; download it from this URL: www.adobe.com.
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Recovering from Tape after Memory Stick Boot Once you have booted, Ignite is launched. Navigate as shown below to recover from tape.
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Select a Media only installation: Select Boot from CD/DVD, Recover from Tape: Select the tape drive you will use with the recovery tape. Select the recovery archive and install the system.
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Show Me! Recovering From Tape after USB Boot Below is an animated demonstration – clicking anywhere within the demo image will start the animation. Use the player bar at the bottom to control the playback. You will need Adobe Reader 9 to view the demo; download it from this URL: www.adobe.com.
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Appendix A: An Example Script to Configure the USB Device with Ignite Boot Content #!/bin/sh -x # First command line argument is USB stick device file basename (e.g. c3t1d0) # Second command line argument is the HP-UX release (e.g. 11.31) disk=$1 rel=$2 cat <<@EOF > /tmp/idisk.txt 2 EFI 300MB HPUX 1000MB @EOF idisk -w -q -f /tmp/idisk.txt /dev/rdsk/${disk} rm /tmp/idisk.
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Getting the USB memory stick device name Use the ioscan command to get the USB stick device name: # ioscan –C disk | grep 255/ 255/1/0.0.0 255/1/0.1.0 disk disk TEAC DV-28E-N HP USBKey4GB # ioscan -nfH 255/1/0.1.0 Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description ===================================================================== disk 5 255/1/0.1.
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For More Information The following relevant documents are available online at http://www.hp.com/go/ignite-ux-docs and http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs. Ignite-UX Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v[1|2|3] Installation and Update Guide HP-UX 11i v[1|2|3] Release Notes HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrator Some or all of these documents are available on the Instant Information media and in printed form.