Storix Software SBAdmin AIX System Recovery Guide - Manual (Page 30)

After booting from a local tape
When booting from tape, there are no pre-configured system installation settings. However, it will be
assumed that the tape from which the system was booted contains the system backup that is to be
installed. If not, you may select either another local tape device or a device or file on a network install
server, from which to install the system.
Verifying the hardware configuration
Once the backup media is selected, and you chose to either continue the installation with the current
settings or to change the volume group, logical volume or filesystem information, the following will occur:
The physical volumes (disks), volume groups, logical volumes and filesystems defined on the backup are
compared against the current system’s hardware configuration. If there are problems that would prevent the
backup from being installed onto the system, such as missing disks or disks that are too small to contain
the backup data, a list of messages indicating the problems will be displayed and the user will be required
to either make changes manually or may select to automatically fix any problems that are non-fatal.
Non-fatal errors are those that require changes to the logical volume configuration in order to allow the data
to be restored, although all of the logical volume features may not be the same as on the original system.
For instance, if there is only one remaining physical volume that matches the original system configuration
for a particular volume group, any mirroring and/or striping will need to be disabled for the logical volumes
in that volume group since these features require at least two physical volumes. If such non-fatal errors
occur when checking the system information, you will be provided the option of automatically fixing the
errors. You may also change the volume group or logical volume information manually to either add more
disk space or change other logical volume attributes manually that would allow the logical volume to be
created as desired.
The System Installation and Maintenance Menu
The Installation and Maintenance Menu will provide all options for customizing the installation of the client. To
display the Installation and Maintenance Menu, the system to be installed must first be booted from either a
System Backup Tape or a Network Boot Server . Refer to Boot a Client for Installation from a System Backup for
details.
The Installation and Maintenance Menu will not appear when performing a no-prompt install (after booting from
a network boot server), unless an error occurred while verifying the backup data.
Unless performing a no-prompt installation, the following Installation and Maintenance Menu will be displayed
after booting from a backup tape or network boot server:
If you are using a color ASCII display as your console, the following menus will
appear in color as shown. If you are using a color graphic display, the installation
menus will not be in color since the AIX “lft” driver does not support terminal color
options.
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