Re: Cloning an AIX 4.3.3 machine

From: Bob Booth - UIUC (booth@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 11:31:14 EDT


Are you mirroring on the 150? You may have to create a 'clone diskette'
which gets read when you boot up on the CD. The clone diskette has a copy
of the bosinst.data file on it, which overrides the one on the mksysb tape.

It is also helpful when going from a up -> mp setup or vis-versa.

If you can't find the instructions in the System Management Guide, let me
know offline, and I will send the files to you.

bob

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:16:27PM +0200, Sippel, Christian wrote:
> Hi List,
> I'm trying to clone an 43p-150 to an 44p170 workstation with an mksysb-tape.
> On the source machine I created the mksysb with "mksysb -i /dev/rmt0". On
> the target machine I booted from CD and right after selecting /dev/rmt0 as
> the device where the backup resides I get an error warning:
>
> "An invalid disk (10-80-00-4,0) was specified in the location field of the
> data file."
>
> Then I have the choice to reboot or continue. If I continue then I can go on
> choosing the disk where I want to install to ( I chose hdisk0 with location
> code 10-60-00-0,0, I don't use maps and I don't shrink filesystems) and if I
> go on I get:
>
> "0516-404 allocp: This system cannot fulfill the allocation request. There
> are not enough free partitions or not enough physical volumes to keep
> strictness and satisfy allocation requests. The command should be retrieved
> with different allocation characteristics.
>
> 0516-822 mklv: Unable to crate physical volume.
> BOS Install: could not create the hd5 logical volume"
>
> What did I do wrong? Is it a problem that the 43p is rspc architecture an
> the 44p is chrp architecture?
>
> TIA
> Christian



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