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Operating Systems AIX Clone 1 Hard disk fromIBM Intellipoint server with AIX 5.x Post 302997805 by bakunin on Friday 19th of May 2017 06:02:06 PM
Old 05-19-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by trevian3969
I have an IBM Server (Type - 9111-285 very old one) with one Hard disk (73 GB 10 K) with AIX 5.x, and I need to clone the existing disk to another with the same specifications.
If your server has onlyy one disk it must have only one VG - "rootvg". You should see both disks as (perhaps) "hdisk0" and "hdisk1" when you enter:

Code:
lspv

If you don't see the second disk: run cfgmgr and if you still don't see it you have some hardware problem you need to fix because the system doesn't know about your disk.

Once you see the second disk you run:

Code:
extendvg rootvg hdisk1

to add the second disk to the rootvg and then run

Code:
mirrorvg rootvg hdisk1

which will create a mirror image of the first disk to the second. Update the boot image of the second disk by:

Code:
bosboot -ad hdisk1

and include the second disk into the bootlist of the hardware with:

Code:
bootlist -m normal hdisk0 hdisk1

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS

installboot

installboot(1M) 														   installboot(1M)

NAME

       installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS

       installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

       The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

       The  ufs  boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
       found using the -i option of uname(1).

       The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the  architecture.  users should use installgrub(1M) instead.

       bootblk	       The name of the bootblock code.

       raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is  read-
		       able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.

       Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block

       To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

	      example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk 
		   /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

       /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs

	   directory where ufs boot objects reside.

       /platform/platform-name/ufsboot

	   second level program to boot from a disk or CD

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)

WARNINGS

       The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.

								    11 Apr 2005 						   installboot(1M)
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