[HPADM] RE: Creating a boot disk in 11i

From: hpux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hpux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of HP UX
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:47 PM
To: hpux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HPADM] Creating a boot disk in 11i

New to the group.

I have searched the archives, and have not found exactly what I was looking for.

I have an HP-UX 11i box with two disks in it.  The first disk came pre installed with OS, utilities, licenses, etc. loaded on it.  I have the Mirror UX software/license installed.  I want to use LVM to use the second disk as a mirror cpoy.  There was already a PV created for the second disk. I have added it to the only volume group (vg00), and have used SAM to add 1 mirror copy of each logical volume.  lvdisplay looks like the data is being mirrored. I then realized I needed to make the disk bootable, and write the boot sectors to it.  I did a  mkboot on the second disk.  I tested it, by bringing the system down, and swapping disks, but it says it's not bootable.  Since the PV was created at the factory, how can I tell if it has the boot sectors written?  Do I need to reduce the second disk out of the VG, and blow it away, and then re-label it using "pvcreate -B", and then add it back to the VG?

In short, how do I make a two disk bootable mirrorset?

TIA,

Rich