From: Sippel, Christian (Christian.Sippel@IZB.DE)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 03:32:02 EDT
That was it, I had to choose 2 drives to install to as the backup was taken
from a mirrored machine and then it worked! Thanks a lot to all who replied!
Christian
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> Von: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM[SMTP:Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM]
> Antwort an: IBM AIX Discussion List
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 17:47
> An: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Betreff: Re: Cloning an AIX 4.3.3 machine
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> you had a mirrored OS you backed up
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> put two drives into that machine and should work fine
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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...
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> > 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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