HPVM seeings LV disks as blank?

[Michael Pye]

HPUX 11.23 running A.03.00 Integrity VM. A HPUX guest has been presented with two LVs that have HPUX installed on and has worked fine. We've rebooted the host and how the guest will not see the filesystems presented on the two LVs it has.

Device  Adaptor    Bus Dev Ftn Tgt Lun Storage   Device
======= ========== === === === === === ========= =========================
disk    scsi         0   0   0   0   0 lv        /dev/vg01/rlv_lv01
disk    scsi         0   0   0   1   0 lv        /dev/vg01/rlv_lv02

The guest has two LVs as above and if I run#

strings /dev/vg01/rlv_lv01

LVMREC01\
DEFECT01
LVMREC01\
DEFECT01
IA64_EFI
EFI        0
T=8=8
STARTUP NSH

It is an LV that then has the EFI partition on it as part1. However this guest will not boot and not recognise the fs0 EFI partition on the disk. In the EFI shell on the guest we run reconnect -r and map -r and only see the two block devices:

Device mapping table
  blk0 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)
  blk1 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)

How can I get it to recognise fs0: efi partition and boot up again ?

Thanks.

[StanM]

The most likely cause is that the partition tables at the begining of the disk are corrupt. Overwritten maybe?

Booting from install CD/ignite and attempting recovery might be needed.

Note that the version you use is obsolete.

Stan

[Dave Olker]

If you boot the VM guest to the EFI shell and try to add a boot option and select one of these LVs will it take you down the directory structure into the EFI partition where you could potentially find the hpux.efi file?

Dave