SunOS xxxsrv01 5.9 Generic_117171-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
I have 2 internal disks identically formatted and mirroed using Sun Volume Manager.
This system has been set up with a ridiculously small /var. Also the remaining disk after /var has all been used. But even if I reduce slice 6...
I have a 2nd interface card in my server which needs to be set up thus:
ce1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 10.248.3.73 netmask fffffff8 broadcast 10.248.3.79
ether 0:3:ba:4d:dc:8c
No problem to set up with the relevant ifconfig...
Yes, I wondered about that. But wuldn't I expect some sort of boot-up message to the effect that a quorum isn't present, and the opportunity to intervene from some sort of single-user mode? That's what I'd get on Solaris anyway :-)
As I say, I tried to boot into boot into single-user mode but...
I don't know how hdisk3 became the original disk in rootvg. The OS was installed by the distributor. I imagine they installed it there for some reason.
I can't use the maintenance thingy - to be clear, this is a p620 maintenance screen that is reached before AIX is booted -
to boot from any...
Through SMIT, I added new disk hdisk0 to the rootvg, then mirrored the rootvg.
Then bootlist -m normal hdisk3 hdisk0
(hdisk3 being the original member). Then rebooted. And it hasn;t worked since.
Obviously something went wrong because if I interrupt the boot sequence and go into the admin...
No message.
The boot sequence starts, a load of "IBM"s right across the screen, then an AIX banner, than the AIX version, then Closing stdin and stdout ...... then nothing further, it just hangs :-(
The LED display on the front just says "AIX starting".
I've just taken delivery of a new p520 and played around with mirroring the boot disk. Now the system hangs whilst booting up AIX at the "Closing stdin and stdout" message.
I'm sure it'll be easy to fix if I can boot into maiintenance mode. But IBM have not yet sent the BOS media and...
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