ignite gone bad!

[matthew mills]

I am igniting a server to increase space on all root drives on a L2000 HPUX 11.00 server. /stand 4095mb, / 4096mb, /tmp 4096mb, /opt 4096mb, /var 4096mb and swap is 8096(on its on drive using whole disk). I have a 36GB drive for VG00. When click on GO I get this error.
ERROR: The total size of the boot volume and overhead is over 2GB. The system will not be able to boot. Please specify the boot volume size such that the size is less than 2GB.

What is it talking about?


Thanks in advance!

[Michael Roberts_3]

You have configured /stand (which is hfs) to be larger than 2GB. Make /stand smaller and it will work. /stand is only for kernels and other early bootstrap files (bootconf, ioconfig etc.)
so it should not need to be so large.

[Patrick Wallek]

You need to massively reduce the size of your / and /stand volumes. There is absolutely no good reasong for them to be that large.

The largest I have ever made / is 512 MB and /stand about 300 MB. I have never had any problems at those sizes.

[John Poff]

Hi,

My guess is that it is complaining about the size of /stand. I've never built a system with /stand set for 4Gb before. Try reducing it to 2Gb (or a little less) and see if that makes it happy.

JP

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Matthew,

/stand has to be within the first 2GB on the root disk. 4GB is way tooooo much for the usage of /stand. 512MB is tops as it wouldn't have anything other than kernel files. Change it to a max of 512 and you should be ok.

-Sri

[Michael Tully]

Not sure why on earth you would need to create LV's that size. TOOO BIIGGG!!

Try something like this
/ 300
/stand 300
/opt 4096
/usr 4096
/tmp 2048
/var 4096

Leave the rest in reserve, you may want to use it for something else. As the problem states the boot volume cannot be over 2Gb

[Steven E. Protter]

hpux 11.00 limitation I guess.

There is no reason you need /stand to be that big. The biggest kernel i ever built was 14 MB on that OS and even keeping a couple backup kernels you can safely reduce that volume below 500 MB.

root also / has no real files in it. Other file systems are mounted on it. The last 11.00 system we have at work has / at 128 MB.

/tmp can be reducced to 800 MB and handle most oracle installations, the only product I know that wants a lot of /tmp space and thats only for the installation.

11.00 can easily be installed in a small 2 gb or less root volume.

stand must be part of vg00. You can have other filesystmes such as /home in other volume groups.

I'd recommend trying the install again with reasonable filesystem sizes.

Also 11.00 is pretty long in the tooth. It will be obsolete soon. Perhaps you should consider 11.11 11i v1. That has more modern architecture and can handle larger boot volume. I would still not recommend such a large stand or root volume.

SEP

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Matthew,

As stated the total for /stand & / *must* be less than 2GB. This is due to the firmware bootstrap routine. It cannot address more than 2GB of disk space.

My 2 cents,
Jeff

[matthew mills]

thanks