Ignite failed

[Maarten van Maanen]

Installed Ignite on a HPUX 10.20
Made a recovery tape with make_recovery -ACv
Try to do a reinstall but get the message:

There is no root volume (mount point = /) defined in the configuration.

I do have a /dev/root defined, but not a /root. Is a /dev/root standard on a 10.20-system. We have a UX 11.00 system which does have a / under /dev/vg00/lvol3.

How can I solve this problem.

[Patrick Wallek]

Having /dev/root defined is a problem, although it is easy to fix. Do the following:


1) mv /etc/mnttab /etc/mnttab.old
2) mount -a

This will recreate the /etc/mnttab file and should get rid of the /dev/root and actually show / mounted from /dev/vg00/lvol#

[Maarten van Maanen]

Patrick,
Thanks for the quick reply. Won't I have to recreate the recovery tape again after I've moved /dev/root ?

[Patrick Wallek]

Yes you will have to recreate the make_recovery tape. After that you should be able to boot from the tape and have everything work correctly. Hopefully!

[Alan Riggs]

BTW -- this often happens if you issue a "reboot" command rather than a "shutdown" after entering LVM maintenance mode (or just climb run levels rather than rebooting at all).