Ignited without enough swap / dump .. cant boot.

[rleon]

Hello All ..

I have an IA 11.23 server that was ignited and now it wont boot up. I cant even get into single user mode.

Error via MP:

WARNING: Open failed on device 0x1f010002 (error 0x6).
WARNING: Can not read LVM BOOT information (lvmrec).
WARNING: Open failed on device 0x1f010002 (error 0x6).
WARNING: Can not read LVM BOOT information (lvmrec).
WARNING: Open failed on device 0x1f010002 (error 0x6).
WARNING: Can not read LVM BOOT information (BDRA).
WARNING: SWAP device 0xfffffffe is a non-LVM partition, disallowed on LVM disk.
WARNING: SWAP device 0xfffffffe has been deconfigured (set to 0xffffffff).
WARNING: Logical volume for Dump expected but not found.
Swap device table: (start & size given in 512-byte blocks)
WARNING: no swap device configured, so dump cannot be defaulted to primary swap.
WARNING: No dump devices are configured. Dump is disabled.
mountfs:opend

System Panic:

panic: all VFS_MOUNTROOTs failed: NEED DRIVERS ?????
Stack Trace:
IP Function Name
0xe000000000d52e20 vfs_mountroot+0x1d0
0xe00000000103ea80 im_mountroot+0x60
0xe00000000140b390 DoCalllist+0x3a0
End of Stack Trace

linkstamp: Wed Mar 28 16:56:19 CDT 2007
_release_version: @(#) $Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Aug 29 22:35:38 PDT 2003 $

sync'ing disks (0 buffers to flush): (0 buffers to flush):
0 buffers not flushed
0 buffers still dirty

*** A system crash has occurred. (See the above messages for details.)
*** The system is now preparing to dump physical memory to disk, for use
*** in debugging the crash.

ERROR: No dump space is configured. Physical memory will not be dumped.
ERROR: Configured dump space is insufficient to hold dump metadata.
Physical memory will not be dumped.


Any ideas.. or am I going to have to do a manual install from cds.

Thanks
Richard

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

A manaul install is likely to be required.

You may have caused this by trying to restore and Ignite recovery image (not golden) made on a system with different hardware, or your swap/dump space minimums on this system are not being met.

The minimum swap size for the OS is half of physical ram. dump can be smaller and if you've got the disk should not be the same disk as swap.

Ignite has an interface to permit you to alter filesystem sizes prior to the installation taking place right after boot.

SEP

[Rasheed Tamton]

Hello,

Did you try
boot -lm (maintenance mode)

Or else
Get another ignite tape from another system with almost similar config.


Rgds,
Rasheed Tamton.