vxrootmir doesn't mirror rootvol

[Stefano_65]

Hi everybody,
I'm in a big trouble:
I'm trying to mirror rootdg on itanium platform, using standard procedure:

. paritionfile
. idisk
. insf
. mkboot
. vxrootmir -v cxtydzs2

every vol is ok, except rootvol

I tryed to remove mirror, remove disk and redo the procedure, with teh sam result.

I think the procedure is good, in the second server I'm installing everything goes fine.

Thanx for your help.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Stefano,

Check your steps.

http://www8.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000072656088

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Stefano_65]

Thanks, but this is the same doc I used to do the mirror..

[Stefano_65]

I forget that info:

The first time I mirrored rootdg was ok.
Than, I needed to remove mirror (vxassist remove mirror), and than remirror on the same disk, and the problem appears.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Could you check this doc.

Please post the error messages (if you get them)

http://tinylink.com/?en7IIiCbwX

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Stefano_65]

Nobody can help me?
I'm still in trouble...

s.

[Stefano_65]

I've no errors.. simply when the procedure is runnig the rootvol is skipped..

[Ralph Grothe]

Hi Stefano,

although I think I'm of little help to your problem since I neither run any 11.23 OS,
and all the VxVM stuff we do is under Solaris, your final statement that the disk got skipped rose my suspicion.

At least under Solaris VxVM there are a couple of config files that leave you exclude certain disks, controllers etc.
Although the VxVM config file targets may differ between Solaris and HP-UX,
do you have any of these files (maybe do a find for the basename from /)?

/etc/vx/cntrls.exclude

/etc/vx/disks.exclude

/etc/vx/enclr.exclude

If so look if your particular disk, controler, enclosure is listed in there.

Yet another often issue is that the disk doesn't have a VxVM conforming partition/slice layout.
Have you checked this?
Sorry I don't know anything about partitions on HP-UX (we only use LVM on this platform),
and under Solaris you would look if the disks is labeled and look at the disk's VTOC.
But don't know how to do these checks on 11.23

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Could it be you need to remove and readd the private region on the disk ?

http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90008/vxdisksetup.1M.html

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000071338296

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Stefano_65]

No, I made vxdiskunsetup and vxdisk rm before redo the standard itanium2 procedure.
s.