vxvm rootability

[Paul Spyrou]

Hi

I am running hpux 11i with veritas volume manager 3.5 and have encaptulated and
mirrored the root disk.

After booting the new disk under veritas control i ran a lvlnboot and found that the BDRA area has not been updated with the new volume names and is still referencing the LVM disk info. This means that if i was to trash that disk the system will not boot as all the offsets for root, boot, swap and dump will not be found.

I also tried to update the BDRA area and found that i could not do so as it seems to need to be under LVM's control and the following error occurs

lvlnboot: /dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/group: No such file or directory

Does anyone have any info on this???

[Scott Van Kalken]

Hey Paul,

Was this an upgrade to veritas or a clean install?

I'm guessing you did a clean install knowing you though...

Scott.

[Dietmar Konermann]

You should have a look at vxvmboot(1M)... or did I get the question wrong?

Regards...
Dietmar.

[Jerome Baron]

Hi Paul,

If I understand your question, you want show disk status (LVM, VXVM).
You can show this with :
# vxdisk list

Status are :
LVM = LVM header
online = VxVM header
offline = No Header

Regards,
Jerome