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[Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows

2006-04-04 14:29:26
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows
From: brooksje AT longwood DOT edu (Brooks, Jason)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:29:26 -0400
So, would you suggest disabling emm386?  I can grab a new nic driver
easily enough. 

Thanks,
Jason 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Karl.Rossing AT federated DOT ca
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 2:25 PM
> To: Brooks, Jason
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows
> 
> 
> Two things come to mind 
> 
> 1) problem with emm386/himem and the dos nic driver
> 2) boot floppy image on the bmr server is corrupt 
> 
> I havn't had a problem with 1) but i have had a problem with 
> a corrupted floppy on the server with BMR 6.0MP1. I had to 
> contact support and have them walk me threw deleting the 
> image in the BMR/netbackup database. 
> 
> You are not at the point of the mac address yet. that will 
> come later after windows is installed. Count on more fun to come. 
> 
> Hope that helps. 
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 04/04/2006 
> 01:10:20 PM:
> 
> > I'm testing BMR and trying a somewhat complex restore for 
> the first try.
> > We've done a BMR backup of one of our Windows servers and I 
> am trying 
> > to restore it to another box, our old BackupExec server.  Both are 
> > Dell boxes, but different models.
> > 
> > I've created a custom boot disk using the DOS NIC and MSD 
> drivers for 
> > the restore client.  I've looked through the BMR Sys Admin 
> guide and 
> > saw several references to doing something with the new MAC address, 
> > but I never saw what to do.  So, here's what happens:
> > 
> > With the boot disk in, started a restore process and rebooted the 
> > restore client.
> > 
> > It goes through the normal post operations and then:
> > 
> > Starting PC Dos...
> > 
> > IBM RAMDrive ver 3.10 virtual disk C:
> > Disk Size: 2048K
> > Sector: 512 bytes
> > AllocationUnit: 2 Sectors
> > Directory Entries: 64
> > 
> > And then it just sets there.  I've tried generic boot disk, custom.
> > I've copied the current config on my BMR'd Windows box, and 
> tried the 
> > restore with that config.  Still nada.
> > 
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> > 
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