From: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 11:47:01 EDT
you had a mirrored OS you backed up
put two drives into that machine and should work fine
Bobby Kelley
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was the rootvg on the original machine mirrored on 2 disks? if so then I
think you need to specify 2 disks on the new machine when you restore your
mksysb (hdisk0 and hdisk1 for example). I've had similar errors when
trying
to restore a mirrored rootvg to a single disk...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sippel, Christian [mailto:Christian.Sippel@IZB.DE]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:16 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Cloning an AIX 4.3.3 machine
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> 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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