Starting a Linux-based computer using Veritas Recovery Disk

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
The Veritas Recovery Disk CD lets you start a computer that can no longer run the Linux operating system. The Veritas Recovery Disk CD is not included with Veritas System Recovery 18 Linux Edition. You must create the Veritas Recovery Disk CD using the createSRD utility after installing Veritas System Recovery 18 Linux Edition.
See Creating a Veritas Recovery Disk for Linux.
When you start your computer using the Veritas Recovery Disk CD, the recovery process follows the recovery environment process of the rescue disk that you used to create Veritas Recovery Disk.
To start a Linux-based computer using Veritas Recovery Disk
  1. If you store your recovery points on a USB device, attach the device now (for example, an external hard drive).
    Note: You should attach the device before you restart the computer. Otherwise, the recovery environment might not detect it.
  2. Insert the Veritas Recovery Disk CD that you created previously into the media drive of the computer.
  3. Restart the computer.
If you cannot start the computer from the CD, you might need to change the startup and BIOS settings on your computer.
  1. Boot your computer into the rescue environment.
To activate network into the rescue environment, do one of the following:
  • Activate your network from within the Red Hat or SUSE rescue environment.
  • Activate your network using the ifup command.
  1. Check if correct version of Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition is installed on your computer.
To check the version of Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition, open a terminal window (command-line terminal) and enter the following command:
symsr -v
  1. If correct version of Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition is installed on your computer, proceed to restore your system.
See Recovering a Linux computer.
See Mounting and unmounting a recovery point for granular file and folder recovery.
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