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Creating bootable recovery media on USB for 7063

How To


Summary

The recovery image for V9R2M950 for the 7063-CR2 or 7063-CR1 HMC works with a USB formatted with an ext3 primary partition.

Objective

This document is a guideline for an example of how to create bootable USB media for reinstalling the 7063-CR2 or upgrading/reinstalling the 7063-CR1 HMC.

Environment

  • IBM Power HMC model 7063-CR2
  • 7063-CR1
There are separate images for recovery media by model:
Recovery Image for V9R2M950 for 7063-CR2  HMC_Recovery_V9R2M950_CR2_ppc.iso
Recovery Image for V9R2M950 for 7063-CR1 HMC_Recovery_V9R2M950_1_ppc.iso

Steps

The following steps have been verified to work in Linux and requires root access:

  1. Download the HMC Recovery Media for either the 7063-CR1 or the separate image for 7063-CR2, from the Fix Central website.

  2. Run the following command to identify the device name of the USB drive after it is plugged in:
    lsblk

    For example: /dev/sdb (where sdb is the name of the USB drive)
    NOTE: It is recommended to compare the output of lsblk from before inserting the drive, with the output after inserting the drive, for identification.

  3. Run the following command to wipe the USB drive (NOTE: All data in the drive will be lost! Verify the correct drive was identified):
    wipefs --all /dev/sdX

    For example: wipefs --all /dev/sdb

  4. Run the following command to verify the size of the disk under the SIZE column:
    lsblk

    For example: When a 16 GB USB drive shows as 14.3 GB, round it down to 14 GB for the next step

  5. Run the following command to format the disk and create a partition:
    parted /dev/sdX

    From the parted utility, run the following three commands:

    mklabel gpt
    mkpart primary ext3 1MiB <size>GiB
    quit

    Note <size> is the size of the USB drive obtained in the step 4.

    For example:

    parted /dev/sdb
    mklabel gpt
    mkpart primary ext3 1MiB 14GiB
    quit

  6. Change directory to the location of the Recovery Media iso

  7. Run the following command to copy the ISO onto the partition (this process will take several minutes):
    cat  HMC-Recovery-ppc64le.iso  >  /dev/sdX1

    For example:  

    For CR2:  cat HMC_Recovery_V9R2M950_CR2_ppc.iso > /dev/sdb1    
    For CR1:  cat HMC_Recovery_V9R2M950_1_ppc.iso > /dev/sdb1

  8. The USB drive is now ready

Related Information

Fix Central for HMC

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
29 March 2022

UID

ibm16454883

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