Re: [Q] rootvg mirror question?

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 07/29/03

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    I believe that the bosboot on the new hdisk1 will fail, because it's not
    recognised as a bootable disk. I've never tried this, though, so I'm
    relying on hearsay.

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Adams Kevin J [mailto:kevin.adams@PHS.COM]
    > Sent: 28 July 2003 22:05
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Re: [Q] rootvg mirror question?
    >
    >
    > Mark,
    >
    > Let's say I boot my system and I now have hdisk0 and hdisk1
    > and I mirror
    > rootvg using mirrorvg and I bosboot and add hdisk0 and hdisk1 to the
    > bootlist.
    >
    > Now hdisk1 fails. So I unmirrorvg, reducevg and rmdev hdisk1.
    >
    > Now I swap out hdisk1 for a new one and run cfgmgr and hdisk1 is back.
    >
    > Now I extendvg, mirrorvg, bosboot (all with hdisk1) and I'm
    > good to go. My
    > bootlist is still good too without doing a thing, but I could
    > re-add it.
    >
    > What's not to work?
    >
    > By the way, why do you reboot before applying patches?

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