Created mirror for rx2660, alternate disk couldn't boot

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The rx2660 normally ships with a hardware raid card. That might be the way to get mirroring done and would lead to a more efficient overall system if you have the hardware raid card installed.

If the card is installed, you would see a prompt at boot that permits you to configure hardware raid.

Another possibility is that you are simply using the wrong disk.

ioscan -fnC disk

Please post.

SEP

[Anh.Quan]

#ioscan -fnC disk

disk 0 0/0/2/1.0.16.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DV-28E-N
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0

target 4 0/1/1/0.0.0.0 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 1 0/1/1/0.0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DG146ABAB4
/dev/dsk/c3t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0
/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s1
/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s3
target 5 0/1/1/0.0.0.1 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 2 0/1/1/0.0.0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DG146ABAB4
/dev/dsk/c3t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0
/dev/dsk/c3t1d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s1
/dev/dsk/c3t1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s2
/dev/dsk/c3t1d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s3

[Torsten.]

Some things to check:

# efi_cp -d /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s1 -u /EFI/HPUX/AUTO /tmp/AUTO.pri

# cat /tmp/AUTO.pri

# setboot

Check also, if this patch is installed:
PHKL_35426

http://www8.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHKL_35426&sel={hpux:11.23,}&BC=main|pdb|search|

Please capture the boot process and post this too.

[Anh.Quan]

Hi Torsten,

the PHKL_35426 was installed in rx2660.

Boot process:
=====================================
Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\EFI\HPUX\AUTO ==>boot vmunix -lq
Second Left till autoboot - 0
Couldn't boot in maintenance mode
=====================================

Regards,

[whiteknight]

AnhQuan,

I would recommend you log a HP support call now, to investigate further.


WK
please assign points

[Shardha]

Dear,

I will recommend, that you have all the procedures. Initialize the mirror disk. Do a clean mirror and they test it . I hope this will work. If you want i can send you the exact step by step procedure to make a mirror, (which i believe you have it)

Shardha

[Shardha]

Dear

There is a entry "3" is missing in the file which you used to create the partitions. now follow mirror procedure given in the attached file (page no 26). It will work.

3
EFI 500MB
HPUX 100%
HPSP 400MB

Shardha

[Torsten.]

Well, you did post a lot of commands you issued, but almost no results from this commands.
In this thread there are also 3 different versions on the AUTO file (maybe this is near the reason).

I would completely remove the mirror from the disk and start over (including a capture of the whole procedure to a file).

[Anh.Quan]

Ok, I agree with you
I will do it again ang get result

Thanks

[Marcel Burggraeve]

The following information you give is very weird :

===
lvlnboot -v
Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
/dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2 (0/1/1/0.0.0.0.0) -- Boot Disk
/dev/dsk/c3t1d0s2 (0/1/1/0.0.0.1.0) â  Boot Disk
Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2
Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2
Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2
Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2, 0
===
After mirroring boot, root, swap and dump should all show 2 disk devices.