From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 05:06:45 EDT
I believe that the bosboot on the new hdisk1 will fail, because it's not
recognised as a bootable disk. I've never tried this, though, so I'm
relying on hearsay.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adams Kevin J [mailto:kevin.adams@PHS.COM]
> Sent: 28 July 2003 22:05
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Q] rootvg mirror question?
>
>
> Mark,
>
> Let's say I boot my system and I now have hdisk0 and hdisk1
> and I mirror
> rootvg using mirrorvg and I bosboot and add hdisk0 and hdisk1 to the
> bootlist.
>
> Now hdisk1 fails. So I unmirrorvg, reducevg and rmdev hdisk1.
>
> Now I swap out hdisk1 for a new one and run cfgmgr and hdisk1 is back.
>
> Now I extendvg, mirrorvg, bosboot (all with hdisk1) and I'm
> good to go. My
> bootlist is still good too without doing a thing, but I could
> re-add it.
>
> What's not to work?
>
> By the way, why do you reboot before applying patches?
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