Re: Moving rootvg drive failed?

From: Bob Bogar (rbogar_at_lifebridgehealth.org)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: 18 Nov 2003 06:31:10 -0800

Not to worry. The "getty process is respawning too fast" likely is
just referring to serial ports which have live inittab entries
(brought over from the old system), but aren't functional in the new
hardware environment. "pdisable" the offending tty's to start with, or
manually clean up the inittab. Then check that your tty definitions
match physical reality.

"Ulrich--nO--(dot)-sPAM--Link" <"Ulrich--nO--(dot)-sPAM--Link"@Epost.de> wrote in message news:<bp0sju$cvf$02$1@news.t-online.com>...
> Andreas Schulze wrote:
> > "Gereon Wenzel" <wenzel@ibh.rwth-aachen.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> > news:3FB35901.E4E2E6F4@ibh.rwth-aachen.de...
> >
> >>I know this is about pretty old machines,
> >>but I want to learn whats going on:
> >>Just moved a set of 400MB drives from a 7012-320H to a 340.
> >>Lacking the SCSI Riser the 340 has a MCA scsi installed too.
> >>Booting the disks failed, so i booted from tape,
> >>an ran diag -a in maintenance mode,
> >>reset boot device to hdisk0 and rebootet.
> >>Now the machine started from disks, but went to frequent error messages
> >>about "ioctr error", looks like the getty process is "respawning too
> >>fast"?
> >>What does this mean?
> >>Is there any way to fix this without installing the mksysb?
> >>BTW OS-level is 3.2.5 (due to an Irisvision graphics board)
> >>
> >>Gereon Wenzel
> >
> >
> > Hallo Gereon,
> >
> > IMHO it is not a good idea, to recycle an AIX installation in a different
> > type of server with different devices by simply exchanging the disks. It
> > might have been even worse that you ran a diag -a on the new server as it
> > can 'clean up' your installation with some rmdev commands without
> > unconfiguring the devices in question before deleting them. That diag -a
> > might also have made it impossible for you to return the disks to the
> > original system without any quirks already.
> >
> > To clone 3.2.5 from a 320H to a 340H (read: any different server type)I
> > would really recommend to use the mksysb. It will be much easier. To make
> > cloning work you just need to supply (during the restore) drivers needed by
> > the new server but not present on the original server (therefore not being
> > included in the mksysb). Search the IBM website, cloning is documented
> > pretty well.
> >
> I had no problems moving the whole scsi-riser with the 2 hd's between a
> 7012-370 and a 7012-340. Both have the same on board-scsi, ethernet and
> keyboard,mouse and serial connectors.
>
> The 320H has no onboard ethernet and no onboard scsi, so the scsi in
> slot 1 will be scsi1 and not scsi0.
>
> The trouble with "getty" leads into another direction:
> try to disable the start of xdm from inittab.
> If the graphics card is in a different slot is has got the next number.
>
> The easiest way: make the mksysb and restore it. This will build a new
> and clean device database.
>
>
> ---
> Uli