[Veritas-bu] Question - BMR Boot - Windows
2006-04-04 14:29:26
So, would you suggest disabling emm386? I can grab a new nic driver
easily enough.
Thanks,
Jason
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> [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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