topic Re: Boot Disk in Operating System - HP-UX

Boot Disk

sivakumar_11 — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:44:39 GMT

Hi all,

Question 1: How to find out the disk is a boot disk or not? How to make boot disk? can i make other disk as boot?

QUestion 2: Can we have vxvm & lvm in one disk?

Question 3:where to get GCC for HP UX 11.11?

Pls reply.

tar
siva

Re: Boot Disk

Henk Geurts — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:11:52 GMT

Hi Siva

1a. use lvlnboot -v command to check
1b/c be sure to use pvcreate -B to create the disk .
this link shows it all :
http://www.unixadm.net/hp/mirror_root.html

2/3 don't have the answer (yet)

regards.
Henk

Re: Boot Disk

Sunil Sharma_1 — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:16:08 GMT

2. no you can not have a disk under lvm and vxvm both but you can have disk under LVM and veritas file system on that.

Sunil

Re: Boot Disk

Stephen Keane — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 03:42:55 GMT

For gcc try

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gcc-3.4.3/

You'll probably want gmake too

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/make-3.80/

Re: Boot Disk

Peyman Javaheri — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:20:37 GMT

Hi Siva,

#2) Perhaps! I never tried on hpux, but you may be able to partition the disk, and then put each partition in each of the VM's. I don't believe that you could use both on the same device file.

This is essentially what I am doing under Linux. I have some disks partitioned to use some parts with LVM.

regards,
peyman;

Re: Boot Disk

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:33:19 GMT

Last post appears incorrect to me.

LVM requires at least one whole disk for setup. You can't have just a part of a disk.

As to the rest of the question, the links posted are good.

Here is a complete guide to making a boot disk with mirroring instructions.

pvcreate -B /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0 #use real disk

mkboot -l /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0
mkboot -a "hpux -lq (;0)/stand/vmunix" /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0 # use real disk

# mkboot -b /usr/sbin/diag/lif/updatediaglif -p ISL -p AUTO -p HPUX -p PAD -p LABEL /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?

If you are running 64-bit OS:

# mkboot -b /usr/sbin/diag/lif/updatediaglif2 -p ISL -p AUTO -p HPUX -p PAD -p LABEL /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?

vgextend /dev/vg00 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 # same thing
lvextend -m 1 /dev/vg00/lvol1 /dev/dsk/c1t0d0

# real disk. repeat for other lvols

lvlnboot -r /dev/vg00/lvol3 # root fs /
lvlnboot -s /dev/vg00/lvol2 #swap
lvlnboot -d /dev/vg00/lvol2 #swap/dump
lvlnboot -b /dev/vg00/lvol1
lvlnboot -R
lvlnboot -v
setboot
setboot -a 52.1.0 # second disk

SEP

Re: Boot Disk

TwoProc — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:26:42 GMT

Where to find HPUX stuff..

Search google for "HPUX Porting Archive" and choose a site near you.