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There are three logical disks. It would seem to me that the best way forward would be to try to find the disk layout (partitions/slices and filesystem types) information of the 2 data/backup disks...

Yes indeed. That is what I have done.
Unfortunately /stand cannot be fsck'd and cannot be mounted.
Microlite says it cannot initialise it either.
My thought is to recreate the whole HD - like...

The issue appears to have been a missing "dac" module from /etc/conf/sdevice.d when RecoverEdge was trying to build its kernel image. The dac module relates to the implementation of ACL.
I merely...

Having fiddled and pfaffed with LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting it to all the libraries mentioned when I ran the command "ldd edge" and getting nowhere, I found a way to debug edgemenu as follows:
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Issue is:
I'm in process of attempting to get Microlite RecoverEdge create a bootable recovery CD ISO.
It is a case of 3 steps forward and 2 steps backwards! Solve one error and then hit another!...

Hmmmm! May be worth a try. Thanks! I'll suggest it to client (who are now sick of me).
But not tonight ... Enough trouble for one day! Thanks again. I'll let you know if it works.

Sadly not. When I run umountall I get "Invalid argument"
When I run "fsck -F vxfs /dev/rdsk/c0b0t0d0s1" I get
invalid super-block
UX:vxfs fsck: ERROR: cannot initialize aggregate file system check...

Hi jgt, I have done above as suggested so now I have the RAID5 system booted with an emergency boot cd...
But I am not sure how to proceed.
I have tried to fsck the root filesystem but there isn't...

I am trying to use a USB (Pen?) drive on Unixware 7.1.4.
The USB stick is in the machine and the machine recognises it when I enter usbprobe as follows:
Path - Address Description...

Thanks. You are right. It is ver 7.1.1 and not 7.11. A typo. My bad.

I am so grateful for all your efforts and for your extremely valuable advice. Mostly I am blown away that you used your precious time to actually read the getting started guide just to assist me....

Background is I am attempting to recover/rescue an HP DL380 G5 which is running SCO Unixware 7.11. It has 3 partitions in a RAID 5 Configuration and is unable to boot with a Stage 3 boot load error....

Many thanks for your great advice! I truly appreciate it.
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One thing I would value your response to the following potential question which I may be asked:
- The process of upgrading from 7.1.1...

In my previous thread post (which is also the most recent on this SCO forum), I mentioned that we have an HP DL380G5 server running SCO Unixware 7.11
which has unable to boot with error “FATAL BOOT...

I think I have confused you with the way my original post was worded;
In my post, when I said "I am able to boot off that <meaning the CD I downloaded> but end up in a basic BCP - /stand - (which...

I'm under huge pressure to recover data from an old server that only gets booted very infrequently. The data on it is urgently required - isn't always??!
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Server is an HP DL380G5 which is...