HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-04 - System Recovery

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 11 (of 54)

Chapter 04 System Recovery

October 29, 2013

RECOVERY COMPLETION

Use this menu after the recovery process has installed all requested

files on your system.

Select one of the following:

a. REBOOT the customer's system and continue with recovery.

b. Return to the HP-UX Recovery Media Main Menu.

Selection:

11. Once you find yourself at the Recovery Completion menu, complete the recovery process

by selecting a. The system should automatically come up in LVM Maintenance Mode if –

lm was included in the Boot String Verification menu. Type the following command from

the shell prompt for more information about completing the recovery process:

# cat /RECOVERY.DOC

# cat /LVM.RECOVER

These two files are also part of this document.

Automated Procedure 2: Installing Critical Files only

1. Boot the system to the Recovery Main Menu (see Co-Procedure).

2. From the main menu select Recover an unbootable HP-UX system. The following menu

is presented:

HP-UX Recovery MENU

Select one of the following:

a. Rebuild the bootlif (ISL, HPUX, and the AUTO file) and install

all files required to boot and recover HP-UX on the

root file system.

b. Do not rebuild the bootlif, but install files required to boot

and recover HP-UX on the root file system.

c. Rebuild only the bootlif.

d. Replace only the kernel on the root file system.

m. Return to 'HP-UX Recovery Media Main Menu'.

x. Exit to the shell.

Use this menu to select the level of recovery desired.

Selection:

3. Select b to install critical files only; the following menu is then displayed:

DEVICE FILE VERIFICATION

This menu is used to specify the path of the root file system.

When the information is correct, select 'a'.

INFORMATION to verify:

Device file used for '/'(ROOT) is c0t1d0s1lvm