topic Re: System Failure in Operating System - HP-UX

System Failure

Sean Furman_1 — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:56:57 GMT

We have an HP 9000 D330 which had something go wrong with the boot drive which contains an 10.20 installation. We believe that our data is on another drive that is that same server. We have a D390 coming in tommorow that we are hoping to put this drive in. Can anyone give me some advise on what I am trying to do. If I can mount this drive in the new server I can save one day's worth of data entry. Also, if we have a 64 port EISA card are we going to need special drivers for it or will it be recognized by the new server when it boots up? Any advise would be much appreciated.

Re: System Failure

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:03:13 GMT

Hi,

Yes. You can mount it on the other server. First find out the disk path by 'ioscan -fnC disk' command. (say c0t5d0)

If it was under LVM configuration, then import the disk using 'vgimport'.

#mkdir /dev/vg01
#mknod /dev/vg01/group c 64 0x010000
#vgimport -v vg01 /dev/dsk/c0t5d0
#vgchange -a y vg01

Now look under /dev/vg01. You should see some logical volumes like lvol1, lvol2 etc.,

Find out the data in them by mounting them.

#mkdir /filesystem1
#mount /dev/vg01/lvol1 /filesystem1

If it was used as a whole disk, then you can do

#mkdir /disk1
#mount /dev/dsk/c0t5d0 /disk1

-Sri

Re: System Failure

V.Tamilvanan — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 02:22:54 GMT

Hi,
I go with Sri. But you are safe only, if your root VG is not spawned across your Data disk.

HTH