Re: SCSI-Tape (st0) in rescue mode

["Thomas E. Dodd /CSDC" <ted cypress com>]

Lukwata Dominic wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I have been sendig this question a number of times. Now may be
> the fith. But no one has answerded to it. Could please aynone
> please help. Following is still my problem:
> 
> I have booted in the RH 6.1 in the rescue mode with:
> 
> 1. boot disk made my mkbootdisk
> 2. rescue disk with the rescue.img
>    (for RH 6.1 form ftp://poeple.redhat.com/bero/rescue-6.1/rescue.img
>     Hier special thanks to Messer for the hint)
> 
> Now I like to read my data stored on the scsi-tape. But I cannot
> access it. In the directory /dev there is no st-devices. i.e.
> no device /dev/st0
> 
> I have tried to include the st.o module using mkinitrd
> i.e.
> 
> mkinird -f --with=st initrd-2.2.12-20.img 2.2.12-20
> 
> and then booted with the boot-disk and then rescue image disk.
> But the st devices were still not available in /dev directory.
> 
> My /etc/conf.modules has the scsi module and looks like this
> 
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 smc-ultra
> alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
> 
> I think it should work. But it does not!
> 
> Can any one tell me how to make the bootdisk such that the
> rescue mode includes the st device (i.e. the device
> /dev/st0, ...)
> 
> Another question is that I made my tapes with the "dump" command.
> Consequently I need the "restore" commend to read them. But this
> "restore" command is not available having booted the rescue mode.
> (Contary to the Official RH 6.1 Linux Reference Guide, Chapter
> 2.15.2, page 64). How do I get the "restore" command in the
> rescue mode?
=
You'll need to customize the rescue disk.
fist ypou need to add the modules for the
SCSI card you have and the st module.

Then you need to put the st dev node on the
it (with mknod). Then add the dump and restore
commands to the disk in /bin or /sbin on the disk.

I'm getting rescue.img now. I'll try to make one for
you, or give more detalied instructions later.

	-Thomas