topic Re: idetifying the rootdisk in Operating System - HP-UX

idetifying the rootdisk

MUTTIKKAL — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:42:09 GMT

how can i know from which disk i hv booted the
system?if i hv mirrors of root disk and all are connected together?

Re: idetifying the rootdisk

Sandy Chen — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:48:52 GMT

Hi,

You can check on /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
It should tell you from which h/w patch your os is loaded

Regards,
Sandy

Re: idetifying the rootdisk

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:49:38 GMT

cat /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log | grep -i boot

regards,
ivan

Re: idetifying the rootdisk

Peter Godron — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:55:57 GMT

Hi,
and welcome to the forums !

# lvlnboot -v
Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 (0/0/1/1.2.0) -- Boot Disk
Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0, 0

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

Re: idetifying the rootdisk

Bob Ingersoll — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:36:46 GMT

For PA:

echo 'boot_string/S'|adb /stand/vmunix /dev/mem

Re: idetifying the rootdisk

Coolmar — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:48:51 GMT

Hi,

Use the lvlnboot command:

# lvlnboot -v

It will give you which is the primary and which is the alternate

Re: idetifying the rootdisk

Raj D. — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:32:23 GMT

Muttikkal,

Here it is ,

# echo 'boot_string/S'|adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

Cheers,
Raj.