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11-15-2013

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AIX upgrade fails

Hello Team,

Am trying to upgrade the AIX 6.1 TL 7 to TL 8. My rootvg is mirrored so i have unmirrored and taken out the secondary disk and trying to install the update via smitty alt_clone.

The filesets has been installed and finally when making the updated disk as bootable bosboot is failing. Please help me ...

Code:

 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 bos.aso                     6.1.8.16        USR         APPLY       SUCCESS
 bos.aso                     6.1.8.16        ROOT        APPLY       SUCCESS
 bos.aso                     6.1.8.16        USR         COMMIT      SUCCESS
 bos.aso                     6.1.8.16        ROOT        COMMIT      SUCCESS
 install_all_updates: Log file is /var/adm/ras/install_all_updates.log
 install_all_updates: Result = SUCCESS
 Modifying ODM on cloned disk.
 Building boot image on cloned disk.
  
 0301-150 bosboot: Invalid or no boot device specified!
 usage:  bosboot {-a | -v} [-d device] [-p proto] [-k kernel] [-l lvdev]
                 [-b file] [-M primary|standby|both] [-D|-I] [-LTq]
         Where:
         -a              Create boot image and write to device or file.
         -v              Verify, but do not build boot image.
         -d device       Device for which to create the boot image.
         -p proto        Use given proto file for RAM disk file system.
         -k kernel       Use given kernel file for boot image.
         -l lvdev        Target boot logical volume for boot image.
  
  
  
  
  
 fcapdev[/home/root]#ln -f /dev/rhdisk0 /dev/ipldevice
 ln: 0653-419 /dev/rhdisk0 and /dev/ipldevice are identical.
 fcapdev[/home/root]#bosbood -ad /dev/hdisk0
 ksh: bosbood:  not found.
 fcapdev[/home/root]#bosboot -ad /dev/hdisk0
  
 0301-168 bosboot: The current boot logical volume, /dev/hd5,
         does not exist on /dev/hdisk0.
 fcapdev[/home/root]#ipl_varyon -i
 [S 10616942 7471268 11/16/13-00:46:57:783 ipl_varyon.c 1265] ipl_varyon -i
  
  
 PVNAME          BOOT DEVICE     PVID                    VOLUME GROUP ID
 hdisk0          NO              0008761ae1775e910000000000000000        0008761a0000d400
 hdisk1          YES             0008761a49a99d340000000000000000        0008761a0000d400
 [E 10616942 0:097 ipl_varyon.c 1405] ipl_varyon: exited with rc=0
 fcapdev[/home/root]#lslv -m hd5
 hd5:N/A
 LP    PP1  PV1               PP2  PV2               PP3  PV3
 0001  0001 hdisk1

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mkbootdisk

MKBOOTDISK(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     MKBOOTDISK(8)

NAME

       mkbootdisk - creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running system

SYNOPSIS

       mkbootdisk [--version] [--noprompt] [--verbose]
		  [--device devicefile] [--size size]
		  [--kernelargs <args>] [--iso] kernel

DESCRIPTION

       mkbootdisk  creates  a  boot  floppy  appropriate for the running system. The boot disk is entirely self-contained, and includes an initial
       ramdisk image which loads any necessary SCSI modules for the system. The created boot disk looks for the root filesystem on the device sug-
       gested by /etc/fstab.  The only required argument is the kernel version to put onto the boot floppy.

OPTIONS

       --device devicefile
	      The  boot image is created on devicefile. If --device is not specified, /dev/fd0 is used. If devicefile does not exist mkinitrd cre-
	      ates a 1.44Mb floppy image using devicefile as the filename.

       --noprompt
	      Normally, mkbootdisk instructs the user to insert a floppy and waits for confirmation before continuing. If --noprompt is specified,
	      no prompt is displayed.

       --verbose
	      Instructs mkbootdisk to talk about what it's doing as it's doing it. Normally, there is no output from mkbootdisk.

       --iso  Instructs mkbootdisk to make a bootable ISO image as devicefile.

       --version
	      Displays the version of mkbootdisk and exits.

       --kernelargs args
	      Adds  args  to the arguments appended on the kernel command line. If this is not specified mkbootdisk uses grubby to parse the argu-
	      ments for the default kernel from grub.conf, if possible.

       --size size
	      Uses size (in kilobytes) as the size of the image to use for the boot disk.  If this is not  specified,  mkbootdisk  will  assume  a
	      standard 1.44Mb floppy device.

SEE ALSO

       grubby(8) dracut(8)

AUTHOR

       Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

4th Berkeley Distribution					  Tue Mar 31 1998						     MKBOOTDISK(8)

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