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Operating Systems HP-UX Creating a bootable disk in 9.10 Post 302210179 by vbe on Monday 30th of June 2008 09:34:05 AM
Old 06-30-2008
Greetings,
I have no idea what kind of box you are dealing with since I know only serie 700 and 800, and nerver heard of 9.10 (I started with 8.00) so 2 way of seing things a serie 800 before 10.XX didnt have tools to make bootable backup, you need to boot from the CD...
a serie 700 with 9.05 and on had commands to create bootable tapes...
In your case, Im not sure what your goal is : have a spare disk to boot from? or replace existing?
Have you tried a copy of disk using dd (this works well!) only trouble in this case you will loose 500 MB...
 

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isohybrid(1)						      General Commands Manual						      isohybrid(1)

NAME
isohybrid -- Post-process an ISO 9660 image generated with mkisofs or genisoimage to allow hybrid booting as a CD-ROM or as a hard disk. SYNOPSIS
isohybrid [OPTIONS] <boot.iso> DESCRIPTION
The isohybrid utility modifies a an ISO 9660 image generated with mkisofs, genisoimage, or compatible utilities, to be bootable as a CD-ROM or as a hard disk. OPTIONS
-h <X> Number of default geometry heads -s <X> Number of default geometry sectors -e <X>, --entry <X> Specify parititon entry number (1-4) -o <X>, --offset <X> Specify partition offset (default 0) -t <X>, --type <X> Specify MBR ID (default random) -u, --uefi Build EFI bootable image -m, --mac Add Apple File Protocol partition table support --forcehd0 Assume we are laoded as disk ID 0 --ctrlhd0 Assume disk ID 0 if the Ctrl key is pressed --partok Allow booting from within a partition -?, --help Display help -v, --verbose Display verbose output -V, --version Display version information SEE ALSO
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