No it is not critical, it just means you need to run savebase before you reboot.
Just like it said on the screen.
Simple if you think about it.
When it says "run savebase before rebooting", what it actually means is, run savebase before rebooting.
You may have a problem if you reboot without running savebase though.
This is implied in the message, the bit that says: run savebase before rebooting.
What this means is that you should run savebase before rebooting.
So the message is posted to warn you to run savebase before rebooting.
FFS
As root, from the command line, logged in as root, type the suggested command, savebase, that's it, job done.
Nothing to worry about.
just login as root, or login as another user and su to root, then type savebase and press return.
If you get a message you don't understand at this point then please post it here and we'll offer further advice.
If you don't get any warnings or errors then you are OK to reboot.
If you reboot without running savebase, or the system hangs, crashes, has a power outage, etc. - which kind of means it will reboot without you having run savebase - then you will have a problem, probably a fairly big problem.
Well, there's a reason of course that savebase didn't (and probably won't) run. I've known it to happen after I was fiddling around with the PV members of rootvg and ended up loosing the /dev/ipldevice link to the boot disk (or some other apparent vital device link). Only got that cleared up after a reboot I think... catch22 I guess.
Actually, the solution to this problem might not seem as clear cut as some think. It is not a very common error.
If you run savebase -v and you get "non-bootable LV name given" try reconstucting your /dev/ipldevice file. (I believe there is a posting somewhere here that tells you how to do that. Use Search to find those procedures.)
Run savebase -v again and if you get the same error, this is what we were told to do by IBM's LVM team:
run:
bosboot -ad on /dev/hdiskX (a disk that has hd5 on it)
bosboot -ad /dev/hdiskY (a disk that has hd5 on it)
ipl_varyon -i
[You'll get a return on every physical disk on the sysetm]
savebase -v
You will then get a return similar to this:
# savebase -v
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