vxvm root disk booting problem - solved with boot -a. How?
Hi All,
We had a Sun Netra T1 go down the other day, the root disk was mirrored using vxvm. Upon boot from either disk, we had the following error appear:
no problems i thought. I'm well aware of this issue with VX. However I discovered I couldn't boot from vx root or mirror (same errors), we tried the cd, and the that failed too (suspected broken cdrom).
having given up all hope, I randomly tried a 'boot -a' (accepting all defaults) which somehow got me into multiuser, but with no vxvm partitions installed, or vx processes running. From there we were able to recover the system.
Can anyone shed any light as to how or why 'boot -a' worked? Not being a VX guy, I'm really scratching my head, and can't recreate this problem.
Hi,
I have an openserver 5.0.0 machine in the office. The sysad of that machine left years ago without leaving the password to anyone.
I was wondering if someone has a copy of the boot / root diskettes (rescue) for this version? Or perhaps if anyone knows a download link / location in the... (0 Replies)
Hi, Im getting a downtime of 4 hrs to do porting of bootdisks.
Currently, the system is running on Sf4800. 2 internal disk 36G connected to a SE3510 storage.
We're getting 72G disks and we want to restore the OS from the current 36G to the 72G disk. System is under veritas volume manager ctrl.... (4 Replies)
Previously , i remove the disk by
#vxdg -g testdg -k rmdisk testdg02
But i got error when i -k adddisk
bash-2.03# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t0d0s2 auto:none - - online invalid
c0t1d0s2 auto:none ... (1 Reply)
Hello guys!
I use the Solaris 10 x86 machine.
I need to clone the boot disk.
Why, when I copy slice 1 - there is a following:
# ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0d0s1 | (cd /mnt && ufsrestore rf - )
DUMP: Warning - super-block on device `/dev/rdsk/c0d01` is corrupt - run fsck
Dump: The Entire... (6 Replies)
Hi All
Hope it's okay to post on this sub-forum, couldn't find a better place
I've got a 480R running solaris 8 with veritas volume manager managing all filesystems, including an encapsulated root disk (I believe the root disk is encapsulated as one of the root mirror disks has an entry under... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can you help me on booting x86 server configured under VxVM. Server boots fine normally from both the disks but if I try to boot server from mirror disk without starting veritas, then it does not boot.
vxplex -g rootdg dis var-02
vxplex -g rootdg dis swapvol-02
vxplex -g rootdg dis... (2 Replies)
Update:
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0) is being checked
fsck unable to stat
WARNING - unable to repair the / filesystem. Run fsck manually (fsck -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0).
Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):
I am unable to hit control-d to by pass.
I... (50 Replies)
Hi guys,
thanks for helping out.
If you have two boot disk mirrored and your primary boot disk fails, how will you boot the system from the second disk?
Thank you very much for your assistance on this matter.
Arrey (5 Replies)
Came home the other day to a Napp-it Gui that would not load.
Login would appear but when i attempted I would get the following
Set default permissions and reading disk and pool parameter, please wait..
in case of problems, try a reboot after Power-Off or check disk and pool status at CLI.... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
So I made a rookie mistake today. I forgot to remove my disk from my disk group, before running the following command:for i in `ioscan -fnN | awk /NO/'{print $3}'`
do
rmsf -H $i
done
I am trying to run the following command, but not having any luck obviously:vxdg -g dgvol1 rmdisk... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrkejames2
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
vxsited
vxsited(1M)vxsited(1M)NAME
vxsited - site monitoring daemon
SYNOPSIS
/etc/vx/bin/vxsited [mail_address...]
DESCRIPTION
The vxsited daemon monitors Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) for disks being attached, and reattaches a detached site if the disks that belong
to that site become accessible.
vxsited analyzes the output of the vxnotify command, and waits for a failed disk to attach. When a disk is attached, vxsited attempts to
online the disk, and tries to reattach the failed site. If a site is successfully reattached, vxsited starts recovery using vxrecover, and
sends mail to root (by default) or to other specified users.
Mail Notification
By default, vxsited sends mail to root with information about the disk status of any attempts to reattach the site. To send mail to other
users, add the user login name to the line that starts vxsited in the startup script, /etc/init.d/vxvm-recover, and reboot the system. For
example, if the line appears as:
nohup vxsited root &
and you want mail also to be sent to user1 and user2, change the line to read:
nohup vxsited root user1 user2 &
Alternatively, kill the vxsite process, and restart it from the command line with the required mail addresses as arguments.
The mail notification has a format that is similar to the following:
Subject : Volume Manager site reattach on host hostname
Reattached site sitename in disk-group diskgroup
Reattachment Procedure
If a disk from a detached site becomes accessible again, vxsited checks whether the relocation daemon, vxrelocd, is running. If vxrelocd
is running, vxsited attempts to reattach the site. The relocation daemon can then try to relocate the failed subdisks using space on the
available disks in the disk group. If the failed objects are successfully relocated, vxrelocd changes the state of the site to RECOVER,
and starts the recovery of volumes at the site. When all the plexes at a site have been recovered, the plexes are put into the ACTIVE
state, and the state of the site is set to ACTIVE.
If vxrelocd is not running, vxsited only reattaches a site when all the disks from that site become accessible. After successfully reat-
taching a site, vxsited changes the site state to ACTIVE, and initiates recovery using vxrecover. When all the plexes from a site have been
recovered, the plexes are put into the ACTIVE state, and the state of the site is set to ACTIVE.
vxsited does not attempt to reattach a site that has been explicitly detached by an administrator. The state OFFLINE is set for sites that
have been detached by using the following command:
vxdg -g dg_name detachsite sitename
Disabling vxsited
If you do not want a site to be recovered automatically, kill the vxsited daemon, and prevent it from restarting. To kill the daemon, run
the following command from the command line, and locate the process table entry for vxsited:
ps -ef
Execute the command:
kill -9 PID
Substitute the process ID of the vxsited process for PID. To prevent vxsited from being restarted, comment out the line that starts
vxsited in the startup script /sbin/init.d/vxvm-recover.
FILES
/sbin/init.d/vxvm-recover The startup file for vxsited.
SEE ALSO kill(1), mailx(1), ps(1), vxdg(1M), vxrelocd(1M), vxintro(1M), vxnotify(1M), vxrecover(1M)VxVM 5.0.31.1 24 Mar 2008 vxsited(1M)