Re: HELP - stale partitions

Depending on the version of the microcode, it is either "5", "6" or "F5"
to get to the SMS menu and boot from CDROM. You also have to press it
at the right time. After it displays the banner, but before it starts
booting from the harddrive.

Edward.Davignon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lead Analyst - Distributed Systems
Utility Shared Services - IT
Energy East Corporation


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Zvi Bar-Deroma
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:58 PM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: HELP - stale partitions

Hi,

Thanks for ppl's answers. First - Hans-Dieter Kutz <hdkutz@xxxxxxxxx>
suggested to run some cmds, here they are with their output:

Script command is started on Fri Dec 15 20:34:07 IST 2006.
(root)aeserv:/# lsvg root
0516-306 : Unable to find volume group root in the Device
Configuration Database.
(root)aeserv:/# lsvg -p rootvg
rootvg:
PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE
DISTRIBUTION
hdisk0 removed 542 335
108..08..02..108..109
hdisk1 active 542 335
108..08..02..108..109
(root)aeserv:/# lsvg -l rootvg
rootvg:
LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT
POINT
hd5 boot 1 2 2 closed/stale N/A
hd6 paging 49 98 2 open/stale N/A
hd8 jfs2log 1 2 2 open/stale N/A
hd4 jfs2 2 4 2 open/stale /
hd2 jfs2 69 138 2 open/stale /usr
hd9var jfs2 47 94 2 open/stale /var
hd3 jfs2 33 66 2 open/stale /tmp
LVlocally jfs2 4 8 2 open/stale
/usr/locally
hd10opt jfs2 1 2 2 open/stale /opt
(root)aeserv:/# lspv
hdisk1 0056bc9a7ad6fef2 rootvg
active
hdisk2 0056bc9ae090c724 datavg
active
hdisk3 0056bc9a8f456051 tsm1
active
hdisk4 004431fa9c9d2146 ssavg
active
hdisk5 004431fac53681f9 ssavg
active
hdisk6 0056bc9a0d0c3f15 miscvg
active
hdisk7 0056bc9a0d0c40d8 miscvg
active
(root)aeserv:/#

Script command is complete on Fri Dec 15 20:35:06 IST 2006.


"Cargill, Bill" <BHCargill@xxxxxxxxxx> suggested running diag to verify
which hdisk is faulty - as can be seen above, hdisk0 has been removed
so IF it's a h/d issue (not scsi) then this is probably it (diag
obviously doesn't see it).

As for "Davignon, Edward" <Edward.Davignon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'s sugestions
(see below), I can probably not do it rmotely (:-) :-(), will try to
check Saturday night ... BTW - to boot into service from the aix cdrom
do I have to change the bootlist, or will a F1 at boot time suffice to
get to the diag menu ? [t'was so straightforward with the key in the MCA

days...).


On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Davignon, Edward wrote:

Have you tried booting from a CDROM and running diag?That would rule
out software.

Try physically reinserting the harddrives, maybe some thing on the
scsi
bus has a bad connection.

Edward.Davignon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lead Analyst - Distributed Systems
Utility Shared Services - IT
Energy East Corporation


Thanks a lot and have a nice weekend,
/Zvika

p.s. errpt -a shows a PHYSICAL VOLUME DEVICE MAJOR/MINOR of:
0000 0000 0000 0000 ; what's this ? hdisk0 is:21,3 ; hdisk: 21,0
and scsi0-2 respectively are: 14,2 ; 14,0 ; 14,1

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