Items in the Repair wizard

As described in Repairing a recovered server, the Repair wizard shows status icons for the operating system and boot-critical device drivers. The following tables describe possible icons and statuses.

OS Platform and Hardware status icons

Icon

Description

Repair not required icon

Repair is not required. The HAL or kernel does not need to be adjusted for the current hardware.

Repair required icon

Repair is required. The operating system might not be able to boot with the current HAL. This can occur, for example, if you restore a single-CPU operating system to hardware with multiple CPUs or cores. In this instance, you can repair the operating system so that it uses all CPUs.

Repair is not possible icon

Repair is not possible. The selected operating system is not compatible with the current hardware. For example, you cannot restore a non-ACPI operating system to ACPI-compatible hardware.

Boot Critical Devices status icons

Icon Description

Device drivers are OK icon

Device drivers are OK. The selected operating system does not need new drivers for boot-critical devices.

Device driver needs repair icon

At least one device driver needs repair. The Status column for each device indicates whether its driver is OK or needs repair.