make_recovery warning

[Ionut Grigorescu_2]

Hi,

I have to change the root harddisk to a D320 running HPUX11.00 - the problem is that the Ignite tape is old and I want to make a new one - on the system is running the "old" Ignite SW - only make_recovery is possible. At the creation of the config file - make_recovery freezes : it says (in makrec.log) that it couldn't restore the LIF volume - it's true, the root disk is c0t6d0 and ioscan reports it as NO_HW, but the mirror disk is still good and a LIF file is there (checked with lifcp). Is there any method to reconfigure make_recovery to read the info from the mirror disk and continue the process of creating the new tape?

thank you,
ionu

[Tim Adamson_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Unfortunately you have an LVM (ie, disk) problem and until you correct it, you wont be able to successfully create a make_tape_recovery tape. You are in a catch 22.

You will have to rely solely on the mirror disk.


Good luck


Tim

[Pete Randall]

I think the only way to do this would be to boot off the mirror and then run your make_recovery, which I assume you don't want to do.


Pete

[T G Manikandan]

THe boot disk is idenfied from the file /stand/bootconf.

With the disk mentioned in the /stand/bootconf and with that disk not responding this is creating the problem.
This information is got from
lvlnboot -v

Probably you should go with what Pete suggests

[Ionut Grigorescu_2]

Thank you all for the new knowledges,

it was OK, I have changed the root, rebooted from the mirror, re-sync the vg00 and reboot again from the root. Now I can do a make_recovery.

Have a nice evening....:-)