restoring make_recovery does not configure i/o properly

[David Ritts]

Made a recovery tape...make_recovery -A -v

the reason I wanted the tape was that I installed a new 9gb disk at c0t11d0 and I want to restore my current vg00 to this disk.
The current vg00 has 3 2gb disks ( not mirrored )This also would allow max pe per pv to be autoadjusted to support the larger drive.
So, I made the tape successfully. Then, booted from the tape drive. Selected non interactive...Intrrupted to load ignite interface...
Then..set the lvm usage disks from the backed up configuration in vg00 to none and set the new disk...c0t11d0 to usage lvm...I chose to do this so that the original config would remain intact
Then...set swap primary lvol2 48mb( I did not alter this)...changed other swap areas lvol8 and lvol9 from 2.1 gb to 1.8 gb each because of the 4gb limitation.
Then I resized vg00 filesystems as appropriate and broke out stand to a seperate fs..
Go...!!!!
archive loading ..A couple of warnings raced by about unable to lock file so and so and about io config warnings..but warnings only,no errors...

Archive loaded successfully with above warnings...

System rebooting as expected....

boot c0t11d0....

Unable to read io confg errno 2...!!!!!

loading streams deamon....

memory information screen displayed.

System hung. Had to key off and set boot back to c0t6d0 to get the thin going..Any ideas would be great.. Thanks.. Kev

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Personally, I'd just do a straight clone of the root disk to your new one by creating a new root volume group.

Scripts for doing this have been posted in several recent threads.

For a 2Gb root disk it should take about 45 minutes to do the following:-
- Create the new volume group
- Make the disk bootable
- Create new root logical volumes (resized
if you wish and even converted from hfs to
vxfs)
- Copy the contents of your existing root
filesystems to the new disk.
- Amend the new /etc/fstab to change the root
volume group name.
- setboot to change the boot path
- reboot

This would be quicker than trying to resolve your problem which I suspect may be something to do with ioinit and /etc/ioconfig?

Hope this helps in some way.

Regards,

John

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Your boot path is not set correctly. Remove the c0t6d0 and change c0t11d0 to be c0t6d0 , then try again to reinstall using the make_recovery.
You can get the latest information from
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs.html

[wyan lowe]

maybe you need patches installed for vg00
so that the kernel can deal with 9gig drive?

do you have the 10.20 patch bundle installed?
and maybe need the 10.20 hardware critical/hwe patches...

then perhaps after installing patches,
rerun the make_recovery -Avi to create the tape
then boot off the tape and choose the new 9gig disk as place to install vg00