[Info-vax] image backup on itanium

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

Two different things.

The disk was bootable ...

The bootstrap code didn't have the information to allow it to use the 
disk ...


Back to details again.  A football is "bootable" ...