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- From: payne@eric.austin.ibm.com (Eric Payne)
- Subject: Re: Another EMERGENCY...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.205851.19608@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
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- Organization: IBM, Austin
- References: <BxM3pB.64B@csd.cri.dk> <1992Nov13.161517.4070@selway.umt.edu> <1992Nov13.222854.13627@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 20:58:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.222854.13627@ncsu.edu> jmmannin@eos.ncsu.edu (James Manning) writes:
- >I'm on an RS/6000 running 3.2.2
- >
- >I boot off of the floppies (correctly, I think)
- >start the maintenance shell, then rm /usr/lpp/bosinst/*
- >(a friend from IBM said it would free up a little space and that I
- >didn't need it anyway, but I've tried this without killing it and that doesn't
- >help), then importvg -y rootvg -f hdisk0
- >which is fine, gives no errors.
- >then I "varyonvg -f rootvg"
- >which gives one error "syncvg: not found" but the friend
- >from IBM said to ignore it.
- >then I try mounting /dev/hd4 on /mnt, but
- >as I said before, mount can't find /dev/hd4
- >I go into /dev, and none of the hd? 's are there.
- >What am I doing wrong?
- >jmm
-
- Sometimes, when you boot from the diskettes, the config manager gets the hdisk
- names confused. In other words, hdisk0 is renamed to hdisk1 and vice verse.
- Don't panic, though, the names will be the okay when you boot from the disk
- again. But my point is that if you have another disk that contains a volume
- group, and that disk got renamed by the boot from diskette, then the import
- will name it rootvg and not complain. Before you run the importvg command,
- do the following:
- lqueryvg -phdisk0 -L
-
- This tells you the /dev names of the logical volumes on that volume group.
- The output should look similar to the following:
- 000166673ca91516.1 hd6 1
- 000166673ca91516.2 hd5 1
- 000166673ca91516.3 hd7 1
- 000166673ca91516.4 hd8 1
- 000166673ca91516.5 hd4 1
- 000166673ca91516.6 hd2 1
- 000166673ca91516.7 hd3 1
- 000166673ca91516.8 hd9var 1
- 000166673ca91516.9 hd1 1
-
- If you don't get something like the above, then you probably did not import
- the root volume group.
- --
- Thank you
- Eric Payne
- payne@austin.ibm.com EPAYNE AT AUSVMQ
- These views are strictly my own. Even then, I do not claim responsibility.
-