Storix Software SBAdmin Linux System Recovery Guide - Manual (Page 29)

Storix System Backup Administrator 29 Version 8.2 Linux System Recovery Guide
4. Booting to the System Installation
Process
Booting the Various System Types
This section will provide general guidelines for booting a system to the Installation and Maintenance Menu ,
used to install a system from a System Backup . Note that the steps differ widely between systems. Because
new systems are being introduced frequently, this is not intended to be a compete guide for all systems. The
following guidelines represent those systems most commonly found in our test and customer environments. If
you are not familiar with the process of booting your system from different media, you should refer to your
system documentation for detailed instructions.
To begin the system recovery process, the client system must be booted from SBAdmin Boot Media . This may
be a local bootable cdrom, tape, hard disk, or a network boot image storied on a boot server. In any case, the
remainder of the installation process will be the same.
The instructions for booting the system vary for each boot type and also differ greatly depending on the type of
the machine to be booted. SBAdmin supports Intel-based 32 and 64-bit systems which use BIOS firmware,
and all IBM POWER (System p) and System i systems which use OpenFirmware. The exact details of how to
boot each can vary with each model of hardware and version of firmware.
Although specific instructions on booting the systems from the installation media are not described here, here
are some hints to help get you started:
Booting to the System Installation Process
CDROM or Tape
If your system uses BIOS or UEFI, it must be configured to allow booting from CDROM. Currently only the
IBM POWER (System p) and System i systems (using OpenFirmware) support booting from tape. If your
firmware (BIOS/UEFI/SMS) attempts to boot from a hard disk before booting from CDROM or Tape, you will
need to change this in case there is already a bootable hard disk in the system.
Typically the BIOS can be accessed on most Intel-based (x86) systems by pressing the Delete key
immediately after the display messages begin to appear. Once your BIOS is setup to boot from the correct
media, just exit the BIOS menu or reset the system.
64-bit Intel-based systems (x86_64) with UEFI firmware will configure the device boot order using the EFI
Boot Manager. In most cases, the default option to boot from CDROM will allow you to boot SBAdmin boot
media directly from the UEFI firmware. However, it may be necessary for you to select “Boot From File” in
the EFI Boot Manager to boot from the media in UEFI-mode. This will allow you to traverse the boot
filesystem tree, where you would select the file “elilo.efi” to boot from.
For other firmware types, which will scan the system for bootable devices, you will normally receive a
firmware prompt where you can select the specific device to boot from.
Hard Disk
To install from a hard disk configured as a system recovery boot disk, you must select to boot from the disk
within the BIOS, UEFI, or SMS menus.