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  • 1.  Issue with running MultiBOS

    Posted Tue July 07, 2015 09:34 AM

    Originally posted by: Brian_O_Mahony


    Someone left an old system in the office after doing a MultiBOS with the bos_ as the running partitions. It is running AIX5.3 5300-12-07-1241

    I am migrating this to new hardware, and to AIX7.1.

    I tried:

    • Taking a mksysb, restoring [using NIM] to the other HW. It fails [cant remember why, reinvestigating, but I believe it was a network driver issue].
    • Taking a mksysb, and upgrading that to AIX7 on the NIM server. Fails because of the bos_ in the filesystems.
    • Creating a new MultiBOS at the same level, and removing the old. This fails with the below error


    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    Boot Partition Processing
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    Active boot logical volume is bos_hd5.
    multibos: 0565-085 Error processing standby boot partition.
    multibos: 0565-039 Error processing standby BOS boot image.

    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    Boot Partition Processing
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    Active boot logical volume is bos_hd5.
    multibos: 0565-085 Error processing standby boot partition.
    multibos: 0645-007 ATTENTION: mb_clear_standby_pte() returned an unexpected result.

     

    A google of the last line, shows:

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ44606

    However it is marked as not an issue, and there is no downloads available. It is also not the exact same error.

     

    Anyone got any ideas?

     



  • 2.  Re: Issue with running MultiBOS

    Posted Tue July 07, 2015 11:54 AM

    Originally posted by: Brian_O_Mahony


    Yeah, the restore of the mksysb to an alternate Power5 errors out with Error 0605.

     

    This P570, is using VIO, so I am assuming this legacy AIX5.3 mksysb is missing the device drivers.

    EDIT:

    Quick check and yeah, different drivers:

    root@devadm1(/)# lsdev -Cl ent0 -r Configure
    /usr/lib/methods/cfgphxent

    root@DevEnv172:devnim1(/)# lsdev -Cl ent0 -r Configure
    /usr/lib/methods/cfgvioent

     

    Anyone know what drivers I should apply to the spot [or even install on the lpar and take a new mksysb]?

     

    I also have a power8 that could potentially house this if it is easier.



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