How to get LVM configuration information under IUX's recovery shell

[Sunny_Zhang]

Hi experts,

Is there is anyway I can figure out LVM configuration under IUX's recovery shell? I noticed that after boot into recovery shell, there are three device files mapping to the same disk under /dev/dsk, such as:

/dev/dsk/c#t#d#
/dev/dsk/c#t#d#s1lvm
/dev/dsk/c#t#d#s2lvm,

/dev/dsk/c#t#d#s1lvm normally maps to boot volume (/stand), so I can mount it. But how can I other volume group information, such as /etc/lvmtab?

Thanks!

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

Is it a itanium system? It seems as the device file shown here show slices. The /dev/dsk/c#d#d#s1lvm will map to stand in only very old systems.

What is the OS version?

HTH,
Devender

[Sunny_Zhang]

No, it is PA-RISC, and OS version is 11i v2.
Only under IUX's recovery shell, it will append s#lvm to disk device file name.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Dawn,

To properly answer your question, I would need to know why you are in the recovery shell.

Usually one goes into the recovery shell to make an unbootable sysstem bootable. If all you need to do is make lvm repairs, or you have replaced your kernel or corrected other issues with booting, then restart.

You can make repairs and changes in single user mode or lvm recovery mode.

boot
inervene at the 10 second prompt.
bo

Y Interact

hpux -is # single user mode OR
hpux -lm # lvm recovery mode.

Don't be upset if I goofed, you really didn't give a lot of information. Guesswork.

SEP

[Sunny_Zhang]

I am a newbie on HP-UX :-). My current work need to run some our excutables under IUX's recovery shell, and understand the lvm configuration of each disk. This is why I ran into this problem. Thanks!