Re: Boot disk problem after migratepv

It looks like it wants a boot disk... makes me wonder if you do a 'bootlist
-m normal hdisk0' and then try the bosboot command again if it'll work.
Maybe the bootlist is somehow empty?

--rm

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Carlos Eduardo Pedroza Santiviago
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:59 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Boot disk problem after migratepv

Hi all,

I've migrated my rootvg to other disk using smit migratepv. But
somehow, after trying to use bosboot to update the boot sector, i'm
getting this error:

# bosboot -ad /dev/hdisk0
unable to identify boot disk
unable to identify boot disk
unable to identify boot disk
unable to identify boot disk

bosboot: Boot image is 25767 512 byte blocks.

# lsvg -p rootvg
rootvg:
PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE
DISTRIBUTION
hdisk0 active 1788 4
00..00..00..00..04

# lspv -l hdisk0
hdisk0:
LV NAME LPs PPs DISTRIBUTION MOUNT POINT
hd10opt 128 128 34..00..00..00..94 /opt
hd1 1 1 01..00..00..00..00 /home
hd3 113 113 113..00..00..00..00 /tmp
hd9var 8 8 08..00..00..00..00 /var
hd2 192 192 192..00..00..00..00 /usr
hd4 8 8 08..00..00..00..00 /
hd8 1 1 01..00..00..00..00 N/A
hd6 1268 1268 00..294..357..357..260 N/A
hd5 1 1 01..00..00..00..00 N/A
lg_dumplv 64 64 00..64..00..00..00 N/A

# ls -l /dev/rhdisk0 /dev/ipldevice
crw------- 2 root system 20, 1 Mar 25 00:22 /dev/ipldevice
crw------- 2 root system 20, 1 Mar 25 00:22 /dev/rhdisk0

# mkboot -i -d /dev/hdisk0

0301-103 mkboot: error opening ""

That's kinda weird, what can i do? I haven't rebooted the server yet, hehe.

thanks,
--
Carlos Eduardo Pedroza Santiviago

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