vxvmboot(1m) [hpux man page]

vxvmboot(1M)															      vxvmboot(1M)

NAME

       vxvmboot - prepare Veritas Volume Manager volume as a root, boot, primary swap or dump volume

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/vxvmboot [-b|-d|-r|-s] [-v] -o offset -l length rawpath

       /sbin/vxvmboot -v rawpath

       /sbin/vxvmboot -c

DESCRIPTION

       The  vxvmboot  command updates information in the LABEL file for the lif disk specified by the pathname of its character (raw) device node,
       rawpath.  The volume at the specified offset and length becomes the boot, root, primary swap or dump volume when the system is next booted.

       This command is normally invoked by the vxbootsetup utility.

OPTIONS

       -b	 Specifies the volume type as a boot volume with name standvol.

       -c	 Is used to update the /stand/rootconf file with the offset and length of the rootvol. The usage is slightly different when the -c
		 argument  is  used.  The rawpath argument is not used with this invocation. Instead the path of the boot device is extracted from
		 the /stand/bootconf file.  Also, the -o and -l arguments are not used to specify the offset and length.  Instead, the offset  and
		 length of the rootvol are obtained from the LIF LABEL file on the boot device.

		 The  -c  option would normally be used in the sbin/ioinitrc script to update the /stand/rootconf file, when the boot disk is VxVM
		 rootable.

       -d	 Specifies the volume type as a dump volume with name dumpvol.

		 If a dumpvol volume exists on the specified disk, the extent information from this volume is used. If no such volume exists,  the
		 extent information of the swap volume is used instead, and swapvol performs the dual role of swap device and dump device.

       -l length Specifies the length of the volume in units of 1024-byte blocks.

       -o offset Specifies the start of the volume as the number of 1024-byte blocks from the beginning of the disk.

       -r	 Specifies the volume type as a root volume with name rootvol.

       -s	 Specifies the volume type as a swap volume with name swapvol.

       -v	 When  used with one of the options -b, -d, -r or -s, displays the contents of the updated LABEL file.	Otherwise, this option may
		 be used to display the contents of the LABEL file on the specified lif disk.

	      Note: The -b, -c, -d, -r and -s options are mutually exclusive.  If more than one of these options is specified, the  vxvmboot  com-
	      mand exits without performing any operation.

ARGUMENTS

       rawpath	 Specifies the pathname of the character (raw) device node for the lif disk.

SEE ALSO

       lif(4), mkboot(1M), vxbootsetup(1M)

VxVM 5.0.31.1							    24 Mar 2008 						      vxvmboot(1M)

bootconf(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       bootconf(4)

NAME

       bootconf - boot device configuration table

DESCRIPTION

       The file contains the address and disk layout type of the system's boot devices or lif volumes.	It is used by the and HP-UX kernel control
       scripts (fileset to determine how and where to update the initial boot loader.  Normally the kernel's script queries the system's  hardware
       and creates the file.  In rare cases when either the system configuration cannot be automatically determined or additional and/or alternate
       boot devices should be automatically updated, the administrator must edit the file manually.

       There is one line in the file for each boot device.  Each line contains the following blank-separated fields in the order shown:

       disk type   A flag indicating how the file system(s) on the disk are laid out.  The flag must be one of the following:

		   Indicates that the root disk is in LVM or VERITAS Volume Manager
			  (VxVM) format.  If LVM or VxVM mirrors are used, then each of the "mirrors" must have its own line in the file.

		   Indicates that the root disk is in the
			  "whole disk" format with no partitions, but boot and swap space are reserved outside the file system.

       device file The absolute path of the device special file that accesses the physical device where the boot area is located.   For  LVM  root
		   disks,  the	device	special file is the physical volume(s) returned by the command.  For "whole disks" this is the device file
		   that references the entire disk.

       Blank lines are permitted.  Any line beginning with a is considered to be a comment.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The Software Distributor log file contains diagnostic messages under the fileset if the file is incorrect.  Most of the messages are  self-
       explanatory; a few warrant additional explanation:

       If there are no other messages about
	      the  file  is probably empty.  Otherwise, the file is not in the proper format, and the other messages will explain what the problem
	      is.

       The specified device file does not point to a disk where there is a
	      lif which contains the file

       Some character other than
	      or is in the first field of a line.

       As of release 10.0, the boot areas in
	      must all be on the same type of disk layout.

       There are characters after the
	      device file specification.

EXAMPLES

       The boot area is on an LVM root disk:

	      l /dev/disk/disk7_p2

       The boot area is on a whole disk layout:

	      w /dev/disk/disk7

WARNINGS

       All of the boot devices in the file must have the same disk layout.

AUTHOR

       was developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company.

FILES

SEE ALSO

       mediainit(1), hpux(1M), hpux.efi(1M), mkboot(1M), vgdisplay(1M), lif(4), intro(7).

       documentation.

																       bootconf(4)