Installing 5.1a onto an LSM system

From: McCracken, Denise (Denise.McCracken@misyshealthcare.com)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 17:18:10 EST


        I have found that when I install 5.1a onto a 4.0f system that
previously had LSM root drive(s), and I install onto a drive other than one
of the 4.0f root drives, the installation does "checking for a previous LSM
configuration" before it installs. It goes back and picks up all of the
definitions from the old root drives, and I have garbage like this in my LSM
configuration:

>From volprint:

TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0
PUTIL0
dg rootdg rootdg - - - - - -
 
dm rz16a - - - - NODEVICE - -
dm rz16b - - - - NODEVICE - -
dm rz16d dsk0d - 0 - - - -
dm rz16g - - - - NODEVICE - -
dm rz16h - - - - NODEVICE - -
dm rz18a - - - - NODEVICE - -
dm rz18b - - - - NODEVICE - -
dm rz18d dsk2d - 0 - - - -
dm rz18g - - - - NODEVICE - -
dm rz18h - - - - NODEVICE - -

>From voldisk list:

rz16a nopriv - - error
rz16b nopriv - - error
rz16d simple - - error
rz16g nopriv - - error
rz16h nopriv - - error
rz17 sliced - - error
rz18a nopriv - - error
rz18b nopriv - - error
rz18d simple - - error
rz18g nopriv - - error
rz18h nopriv - - error
- - rz16b rootdg failed was:rz16b
- - rz16g rootdg failed was:rz16g
- - rz16h rootdg failed was:rz16h
- - rz16a rootdg failed was:rz16a
- - rz18a rootdg failed was:rz18a
- - rz18b rootdg failed was:rz18b
- - rz18g rootdg failed was:rz18g
- - rz18h rootdg failed was:rz18h

        I can install the OS with a customized install.cdf. Is there any
way that I can tell the installer not to go back and look for that previous
LSM configuration? When I install onto one of the old root drives, I just
remove the d parition from the mirror, but obviously I can't do that from
both sides of the mirror before I shut down, nor can I deport rootdg. I'm
doing this remotely, so removing a disk isn't an option. I've tried setting
bootdef_dev to null and that doesn't help.

        Any ideas?

thanks

-denise

"Customer service may be the only way that a
company can distinguish itself from its
competition these days." -H. Frank Gibbard

Denise McCracken, Systems Software Specialist
Misys Healthcare Systems, Tucson, AZ

Certified Tru64 v5 Systems Administrator
Comptia Network+ Certified Professional



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