Can't mount filesystem

My knowledge is limited, but I have replaced a mirrored root drive before without any problems. I was upgrading from 5.3 TL6 to TL7 and all went smoothly until I rebooted and lost a drive...completely...no longer accessible.

I replaced the drive. I removed the VG, LVs, and FS and recreated them. I cannot mount the FS and get the error:
0506-324 Cannot mount /dev/sirsilv01 on /s: A system call received a parameter that is not valid.

I have done:
restored from mksysb, rmdev -dl hdisk2 [original] and hdisk4 [created on reboot] and rebooted.
Reformatted and certified both hdisk2 and hdisk3
Recreated the VG, LV, FS [repeated this step several times]

One unusual thing was that I could not create the LV from command line. I had to use smit. The commands were:
mklv -a e -t jfslog -s s -y loglv01 sirsivg 1 hdisk2
mklv -a e -t jfs -s s -y sirsilv01 -c 2 sirsivg 541 hdisk2

I received a 0516-414 and 0516-822 error about "Illegal UpperBound" [unfortunately I thought I had saved these errors, but I can't find them at the moment].

I could create the LV and FS without any errors using smit, but I still get:
0506-324 Cannot mount /dev/sirsilv01 on /s: A system call received a parameter that is not valid.

Any suggestions are much appreciated.
Karen Boddy
Capital City Libraries






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