AIX 5.2 -> 5.3 Migration

From: Andrew J. Forgue (forgue_at_OAKLAND.EDU)
Date: 10/11/05

  • Next message: Robert Binkley: "Re: AIX 5.2 -> 5.3 Migration" 
    Date:         Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:07:31 -0400
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    List,

    I am upgrading a system (p650/no LPARS) from AIX 5.2 to AIX 5.3 and I am
    having issues after the install.

    I started the install yesterday around 2pm and got to the rebooting
    process when I was called away for another production issue with our
    Tru64 machines. When I returned this morning, all I had was the X
    Server background and the "aixconsole" window running. I couldn't SSH
    to the machine or anything (connection refused). I had to reboot the
    machine, which then gave me a "ROOT MNT FAILED" 557 error and then I
    went into maintenance mode with the 5.3 disks, formed a new log device,
    fsck'ed all the filesystems, rebuilt a boot image and typed 'exit' to
    let it mount the filesystems. I am able to read all the files and
    navigate the filesystem. When I reboot normally (shutdown -Fr), it goes
    back to saying root mnt failed.

    I was thinking 2 things:

    * fscking hd4 and do a reboot from there without trying to mount it

    * fsck/mount hd4, copying everything off of it while preserving links,
    permissions, modes, etc to a seperate LV, mkfs'ing hd4 again and copying
    everything back.

    I got off the phone with IBM who basically said that I should restore
    from tape, which isn't a bad idea, I have one from last night, but it's
    an interesting problem.

    Andrew

  • Next message: Robert Binkley: "Re: AIX 5.2 -> 5.3 Migration"

    Relevant Pages

    • Does SP2 Suck, or What?
      ... install yesterday, and I actually liked the block pop-up feature. ... reboot, and ... Fortunately, SP2 creates a set point for System Restore, and last ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
    • Re: is this possible with Solstice DiskSuite?
      ... >> unlike all other filesystems on that system ... Reboot into single-user mode. ... > Skip this step if you're not paranoid. ... I also dont quite trust 100% ufsdump/ufsrestore, ...
      (comp.unix.solaris)
    • alt_disk_install reboot hangs at 0517
      ... We have an old S80 here that we are trying to restore a mksysb image ... 30 minutes to reboot this pig) it loads the kernel then hangs at 0517. ... I have booted to a maintenance shell off the CD and ran fsck on all ... filesystems, it continuously scrolls the errormessage "/etc/getrootfs ...
      (comp.unix.aix)
    • NFS & rebooting
      ... A long time ago, whenver I rebooted an NFS server, all the ... client machines with mounted filesystems would completely freak out. ... remount them, the only thing I could do, was to force a reboot on the ...
      (freebsd-isp)
    • UFS mount problem
      ... of UFS filesystems and after the fsck step the machine ... I then subsequently discovered that two of the filesystems ... I have no copy of the console output during ... the reboot, ...
      (Tru64-UNIX-Managers)