[Info-vax] image backup on itanium

[Volker Halle]

Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2015 09:07:21 UTC+2 schrieb Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <554524af$0$32302$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d at news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 
> 
> > > Two different things.  BACKUP/IMAGE creates a disk which is LOGICALLY 
> > > the same, i.e. at the Files-11 level.  It doesn't know about anything 
> > > lower-level than that. 
> > 
> > BACKUP/IMAGE on that IA64 thing is aware of the lower level stuff
> > because it is able to create the fake partitioning scheme at the very
> > low disk blocks, and allocate a VMS file at the right disk blocks that
> > happen to match where EFI sees the EFI partition on the disk.
> 
> But Hans said it didn't result in something bootable.

Philipp,

the failure to boot that copy had NOTHING to do with the BACKUP/IMAGE Operation, but was caused by missing the step to re-create the EFI boot Definition for that disk (new GUID).

Volker.