IBM totalstorage 200, Service Manual

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Chapter 2. Using the Recovery Enablement Diskette and
Recovery CD
The Recovery CD is a startable CD that contains the preload image for your
Network Attached Storage 200 Models 200 and 225 and is used to recover the
preloaded image on your server. You must start your appliance using the Recovery
Enablement Diskette before you will be able to use the Recovery CD.
Important
The Recovery Enablement Diskette enables the Network Attached Storage
200 Models 200 and 225 to start from the CD-ROM drive. You will not be able
to restore the preload image from the Recovery CD without first restarting the
appliance using the Recovery Enablement Diskette.
To recover the preloaded image on your appliance:
1. Insert the diskette into the diskette drive and restart the appliance.
When the Recovery Enablement Diskette has completed loading and
reconfiguring your appliance startup sequence the appliance will begin beeping.
Do not continue with this procedure until the appliance begins beeping.
2. Remove the Recovery Enablement Diskette from the diskette drive.
3. Place the Recovery CD in the CD-ROM drive and restart the appliance.
The recovery process will begin automatically and the original manufacturing
preload will be restored. After the preload image is restored the system restarts
automatically and all final operating system configuration changes are performed.
Important
After the appliance restarts a series of configuration and system preparation
programs that finish configuring the NOS are run automatically. These
programs must finish running before you use any included applications (such
as the IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility or the Terminal Services
Client) to connect to or configure your Network Attached Storage 200 Models
200 and 225. Do not connect to or configure the Network Attached Storage
200 Models 200 and 225 for at least 15 minutes after system restart. This
notice applies only to the first time the Network Attached Storage 200 Models
200 and 225 is started after using the Recovery CD.
Note: Logical Disk 0 will be configured to a 2GB NTFS boot partition. Any other
previously configured logical disk drives will be left unchanged.
Important
The Network Attached Storage 200 Models 200 and 225 is a “headless”
system, meaning that there is no keyboard or mouse is attached to the
appliance. Because of this, the preload image restore process cannot require
interaction. Starting the Recovery CD will, without prompting the user,
automatically destroy all data on the system drive. Use the Recovery
Enablement Diskette and Recovery CD only when it is absolutely necessary to
restore the preloaded system image.
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