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VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

 
AlphaRelease
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‎08-10-2010 07:27 AM

‎08-10-2010 07:27 AM

VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

Hi all,

A VxVM root disk was copied with a script (essentially using 'dd'). Then the disk was made bootable with 'pvcreate -f -B cxtxdx'. Booting the disk from another controller worked fine, but there is an error/warning in the HP-UX boot log: Disk /dev/disk/disk14 does not contain valid LIF structures.

Any ideas what might be the solution.

/BR
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AlphaRelease
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‎08-10-2010 11:37 AM

‎08-10-2010 11:37 AM

Re: VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

Hi all,

I solved it by changing `/stand/bootconf`. It should point to disk18, but it was still pointing to disk14.

/BR
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Torsten.
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‎08-10-2010 08:36 PM

‎08-10-2010 08:36 PM

Re: VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

This sounds strange - you did a "dd" to copy a VxVM disk, but pvcreate is used for creating LVM disks. I guess you destroyed something in VxVM layout now.

Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.

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AlphaRelease
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‎08-13-2010 12:45 AM

‎08-13-2010 12:45 AM

Re: VxVM - Copied disk does not contain valid LIF structures

You are right Torsten. No problems so far, but we mixed two things there. Copy now being done with Veritas Enterprise Manager. /BR
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