topic Re: VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures in Operating System - HP-UX

VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

AlphaRelease — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:27:34 GMT

Hi all,

A VxVM root disk was copied with a script (essentially using 'dd'). Then the disk was made bootable with 'pvcreate -f -B cxtxdx'. Booting the disk from another controller worked fine, but there is an error/warning in the HP-UX boot log: Disk /dev/disk/disk14 does not contain valid LIF structures.

Any ideas what might be the solution.

/BR

Re: VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

AlphaRelease — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:37:11 GMT

Hi all,

I solved it by changing `/stand/bootconf`. It should point to disk18, but it was still pointing to disk14.

/BR

Re: VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

Torsten. — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:36:30 GMT

This sounds strange - you did a "dd" to copy a VxVM disk, but pvcreate is used for creating LVM disks. I guess you destroyed something in VxVM layout now.

Re: VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

AlphaRelease — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:45:12 GMT

You are right Torsten. No problems so far, but we mixed two things there. Copy now being done with Veritas Enterprise Manager. /BR