Thanks - I am able to see the (second) disk which is how I'm able to fsck the partitions.
if I chose #1 and the get information on it:
It does say it is bootable:
So when I service mode boot that disk, I get:
518 Remote mount of the root (/) and /usr file systems failed during network boot.
Now the normal way to fix that, as I understand it, is to reboot to cd and follow a tech note, which basically says fsck the filesystems. Which I am able to do.
But that doesn't seem to allow the darn thing to boot. And I'm guessing that the problem is that the rootvg is mirrored and one of the disks is dead. Surely that is something that should be able to be worked around? Or am I just screwed and will need to do a re-install?
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Hello again,
We need to install patches to HP-UX B.11.11 but would like to break the mirror it has (with out damaging it) so that in case of failure we can use this a meassure procedure.
Any ideas on how to do this
Thank you! (2 Replies)
Hi All,
How do you know if you need to break the mirror on solaris 8 patch update?
Here's the patch example, 117350-54. On the site, it's just a low type update and not a medium or critical.
Is breaking a mirror a best practice only or really a requirement to some patch?
Thanks,
itik (1 Reply)
Hi All,
How do I break the solaris 8 mirror? And how do I make sure I will point the first hd mirror on reboot.
If the first break mirror won't boot. How do I make the copy mirror to boot?
Thanks in advance,
itik (2 Replies)
Hello
I have a question
I have a box with Aix 5.3 with rootvg on mirror.
I deleted a filesystem and I create a new one to install some software but when I type lsvg -l rootvg all my filesystems has mirror unless the new one.
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We are considering a DR strategy of booting AIX 5.3 and 5.3 logical partitions from EMC Symmetrix SAN disks, so that we can replicate via SRDF to a recovery site. Has anyone tried configuring AIX 5.x systems to boot from SAN disk? If so, can you provide any information on the pros and cons of... (6 Replies)
Guys,
In my AIX 6.1 box the rootvg was on hdisk2, I tried to migrated it to hdisk0
Added hisk0 to rootvg , mirrored rootvg and changed bootlist and and sucessfully rebooted from hdisk0
Now I tried to remove the hdisk2 from rootvg so breaked mirror
-bash-3.00# unmirrorvg rootvg hdisk2... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I need help for erasing IBM P5 machine running AIX 5.3.
I have 2 system disks (Hardware mirror) and i'm looking for a way like a LIVE CD bootable CD so I can boot with the cd and then format the system disks with a "secure erase" software. (7 Replies)
Hello:
I have a machine built on 2 drives and mirrors have been created to a second set of 2 drives (4 total) on the same platform. SVM.
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Hello,
Few days ago I created both mksysb and savevg archives of rootvg.
How can I restore this rootvg now because the AIX crashed during some software tests. There is no way to start from hdisk0 because most of the system files are deleted (this includes libc.a).
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Hi Guys,
I have a mirrored LVM volume, and wish to break the mirror leaving only copy1 (effectively removing copy 0).
Here's the config:
# lvs -a -o +devices
lvdata vg01 mwi-ao 2.19T lvdata_mlog 100.00 lvdata_mimage_0(0),lvdata_mimage_1(0)
vg01... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
vxbootsetup
vxbootsetup(1M)vxbootsetup(1M)NAME
vxbootsetup - set up system boot information on a Veritas Volume Manager disk
SYNOPSIS
/etc/vx/bin/vxbootsetup [-g diskgroup] [medianame ... ]
DESCRIPTION
The vxbootsetup utility configures physical disks so that they can be used to boot the system. Before vxbootsetup is called to configure a
disk, the required volumes, standvol, rootvol and swapvol (and optionally, dumpvol) must be created on the disk. All of these volumes must
be contiguous with only one subdisk.
The -g option may be used to specify the boot disk group.
If no medianame arguments are specified, all disks that contain usable mirrors of the root, swap, /usr and /var volumes are configured to
be bootable.
If medianame arguments are given, only the disks that are associated with the specified disk names are configured to be bootable.
vxbootsetup requires that:
o The root volume must be named rootvol and must have a usage type of root.
o The swap volume must be named swapvol and must have a usage type of swap.
o The volumes containing /usr and /var (if any) must be named usr and var, respectively.
See the chapter "Recovery from Boot Disk Failure" in the Veritas Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide for detailed information on how the
system boots and how VxVM impacts the system boot process. The vxmirror, vxrootmir, and vxresize utilities call vxbootsetup automatically.
If you use vxassist, or vxmake and vxplex to create mirrors of the root volume on a disk, you must run vxbootsetup explicitly to make the
disk bootable.
ARGUMENTS
medianame
Specifies the disk name (disk media name) of a VM disk that is to be configured as bootable.
SEE ALSO disksetup(1M), edvtoc(1M), vxassist(1M), vxevac(1M), vxinstall(1M), vxintro(1M), vxmake(1M), vxmirror(1M), vxplex(1M), vxresize(1M),
vxrootmir(1M)
Veritas Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide
VxVM 5.0.31.1 24 Mar 2008 vxbootsetup(1M)