Ignite-UX USB Memory Stick Boot

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. It is useful for

customers with no direct tape boot capability.

Requirements

You must have a USB memory stick with enough memory to hold the Ignite boot content – a 2GB or

larger memory stick is required.

To function technically, the device needs to at least conform to Mass Storage Class (0x8), Sub-Class

Reduced Block Command (0x01), or SCSI transparent command set (0x06); and interface protocol

BulkOnly (0x50). Modern USB sticks from major manufactures should support these requirements.

The system used to create the USB memory stick content must support USB and have the USB driver

installed.

The USB memory stick must be configured with the Ignite boot content as detailed here.

Configuring the USB Device with Ignite Boot Content

In order to configure the memory stick with the boot content, a number of commands are required.

Appendix A: An Example Script to Configure the USB Device with Ignite Boot Content contains an

example script that takes the USB device file name and the HP-UX version as arguments. You must

run this script from a system with Ignite-UX installed.

An example script might be included in a future Ignite-UX product release. If so, the Ignite-UX

product release notes will provide appropriate information.

The Ignite-UX install environment that will be copied onto the memory stick will be the same Ignite-

UX version installed on the system that runs the script. Ensure the version of Ignite-UX on the

memory stick matches the version that was used to create the recovery image to be restored (the

version used to create the recovery tape or that is installed on the Ignite-UX server).

At this time Ignite-UX does not support memory stick as a source type for install or recovery. Thus,

you cannot create a memory stick image that supports install or recovery by itself.