Not able to activate VG

[josinjosek]

When I am trying to activate VG I am getting below error. Please help me to resolve this issue.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

What error? You negleted to specify the exact error message.

...JRF...

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

Is this is a Cluster or none Cluster VG?
If you can specify the error we can help you

Darrel

[josinjosek]

Sorry, I forgot to attach logs.

# vgdisplay
vgdisplay: Volume group not activated.
vgdisplay: Cannot display volume group "/dev/vg00".
vgdisplay: Volume group not activated.
vgdisplay: Cannot display volume group "/dev/vgdb".
# vgchange -a y vg00
vgchange: Warning: Couldn't attach to the volume group physical volume "/dev/dsk/c3t15d0":
Cross-device link
vgchange: Cross-device link
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c3t15d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c1t15d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
vgchange: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
vgchange: Couldn't activate volume group "vg00":
Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing.

# ioscan -fnC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
======================================================================
disk 0 0/0/1/1.15.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c1t15d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t15d0
disk 1 0/0/2/1.15.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 18.2GMAN3184MC
/dev/dsk/c3t15d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t15d0
#

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

Can you please post the following info:
lvlnboot -v
pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c3t15d0
pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c1t15d0
bdf

Darrel

[josinjosek]

# lvlnboot -v
lvlnboot: Volume group not activated.
Cannot display volume group "/dev/vg00".
lvlnboot: Volume group not activated.
Cannot display volume group "/dev/vgdb".
# pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c3t15d0
pvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c3t15d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
pvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c1t15d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
pvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
pvdisplay: Couldn't retrieve the names of the physical volumes
belonging to volume group "/dev/vg00".
pvdisplay: Cannot display physical volume "/dev/dsk/c3t15d0".
# pvdisplay -v /dev/dsk/c1t15d0
pvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c3t15d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
pvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query physical volume "/dev/dsk/c1t15d0":
The specified path does not correspond to physical volume attached to
this volume group
pvdisplay: Warning: couldn't query all of the physical volumes.
pvdisplay: Couldn't retrieve the names of the physical volumes
belonging to volume group "/dev/vg00".
pvdisplay: Cannot display physical volume "/dev/dsk/c1t15d0".
# bdf
sh: bdf: not found

[josinjosek]

I am not able to boot the system .Now I am in single user mod with hpux -lm option.

[bmanthei]

As Darrel Notes, Please display the pvdisplay data. It looks as though you may have a bad boot disk. Looking at your ioscan, it does not look like you have a mirror for vg00?