I suspect that you only have a disk left without a boot logical volume or boot image on it. In SMS, can you ask it to select the boot device and when prompted get it to list all? That might tell you which devices are bootable at all.
The process for mirroring rootvg should always be:-
I would suggest that removing the mirror should follow the same subsequent steps, doing an unmirrorvg then a reducevg
If you have a mksysb image, you should be able to boot from that and go to single user, accessing the root volume group. You will then need to discover which disks you have available and try to work out what is on each and hopefully you can complete the bosboot there then boot again, probably through SMS to choose the boot device.
If bosboot fails, then you can be left with an un-bootable system too.
To remove the mirror, did you specify the disk to have the mirror removed from? I've had experience where just giving it the command will remove some LVs from one disk and some from another. Just pulling/deconfiguring a disk might then give you the symptoms here.
It would be good to know the steps taken, although obviously you won't be able to scrape them off the screen to show us.
A server I can have a play with reports this when I list the boot devices from SMS:-
These are VIO provided disks, but the principal is the same. For your disks, it should be able to read the OS version and display it to you.
You should not use the normal AIX disk but the "Diag"-disk. The normal disk is for OS installation, "diag" is for maintenance. "diag" is menu-driven, so it is pretty self-explanatory.
I have checked my AIX CD, but there is no diag CD.
This is not part of the AIX CD-set but a separate CD. If you do not have one you need to get it from your IBM SP. Note that you need a version which is at least at the firmware level of your system.
Hello....weird problem but hoping someone can help!
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