From: Lane, Jim (Jim.Lane@CIBC.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 09:37:27 EST
Hi, All
I am trying to set up a Live Update alternate boot environment. All the
disk space available on the server is used by Veritas volume manager
volumes. I understand that I have to have a real slice available (not a
metadevice or VxFS) to set this up. So I started by breaking the mirror
on the boot volume by commands such as
vxplex -o rm dis plex-name
These seemed to work and the traces of the mirror volume no longer show
up in the output of vxprint -g rootdg. I ran format to display the
partition table of the detached mirror disk and identified a slice name
of an appropriate size. Given that I ran the following command:
lucreate -A Solaris9 -c Solaris8 -m /:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s5:ufs -n Solaris9
where c1t1d0s5 is the available slice. Sadly this didn't work, as
follows:
Discovering physical storage devices
Discovering logical storage devices
Cross referencing storage devices with boot environment configurations
Determining types of file systems supported
Validating file system requests
Preparing logical storage devices
Preparing physical storage devices
Configuring physical storage devices
Configuring logical storage devices
Analyzing system configuration.
Comparing source boot environment <Solaris8> file systems with the file
system(s) you specified for the new boot environment. Determining which
file systems should be in the new boot environment.
Updating boot environment description database on all BEs.
Searching /dev for possible boot environment filesystem devices
Template entry /:/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s5:ufs skipped.
luconfig: ERROR: Template filesystem definition failed for /, all
devices are not applicable..
ERROR: Configuration of boot environment failed.
Have I missed a step or mangled some syntax here? I googled up an entry
on this that said for Disk Suite you need to run a command metaclear
after breaking a mirror. Is there an equivalent to that for Veritas? Or
am I seriously off track here? I admit that I'm in over my head here but
I'm trying to fill in on an emergency basis for somebody who really does
know Solaris.
Regards,
Jim Lane
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