Recover LIF area

[Rui Vilao]

Hi all,

I have an HP-UX 10.20 K server
which doesn't boot...

I have no ignite recovery tape;
The mirror boot disk was not set-up (I was about to do it...)
LVM mirroring is set-up.
hp-ux -lm fails.
When I boot normally I get: "bat lif magic"

I believe there is a way to recover the
LIF area using a recovery shell or a support tool...

Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated,

Kind Regards,

Rui.

[Trond Haugen]

There should be a Recovery CD that you can boot from and recover the bootLIF.
I belive that for 10.20 this was a separate CD whereas for 11.x there is ONE install/update/recovery.

Regards,
Trond

[David Burgess]

Hi,

Boot from the recovery media, run a recovery shell and choose the menu option to rebuild the bootlif.

HTH

Dave.

[Craig Rants]

This link should walk you through the process.
Follow the instructions that Alex has...

GL,
C

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x815a7e990647d4118fee0090279cd0f9,00.html

[Rui Vilao]

Thanks to all.

I found 2 CDs:

HP-UX 10.20 Support Plus "Diagnostics and tEsted Patch Bundles" - June 2000
10.20 Hardware Extentions 2.0 - April 1998

This last CD contains a recovery shell option. However I didn't find anything to recover LIF area...


TIA,

Regards,

Rui.

[David Burgess]

When you boot from it what menu optins do you get?

Regards,

Dave.

[Rui Vilao]

Ok... I found a suitable CD with the bootlif option.

I have gone through the process:

r - recover an unbootable HP-UX system
c - rebuild bootlif
path to bootlif
boot string verification (hp-ux -lm ...)
Recovery completion: reboot.

After reboot, my system crashes at startup with the message:

"no primary swap configured"

TIA,

Kind Regards,

Rui.

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

You need to follow the instructions in the link posted above to recover the BDRA with lvlnboot. Specifically:-
# lvlnboot -v /dev/vg00
Insure that there is a boot lvol, root lvol, and swap lvol defined
If not, for missing boot lvol use "lvlnboot -b /dev/vg00/lvol1"
for missing root lvol use "lvlnboot -r /dev/vg00/lvol3"
for missing swap lvol use "lvlnboot -s /dev/vg00/lvol2"

You appear to be missing the lvlnboot -s ...

Regards,
John

[David Burgess]

Can you get into single user mode and sun

lvlnboot -s /dev/vg00/lvol2

or whatever your primary swap lvol is

You may nee dto do this in lvm maintenance mode

Therefore reboot interact with IPL and boot with hpux -is

Regards,

Dave.

[Rui Vilao]

Boot disk was successfully recovered!

Thanks to all.
Special thanks to Craig and John.

Regards,

Rui.