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  • 1.  Multibos Problem

    Posted Wed June 13, 2007 06:17 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Just testing the multibos facility. My test client is a virtualised AIX partition, running AIX 5.3 TL5-CSP on a p510q. The VIOs which servers this client is 1.4.1.1-FP-9.1

    The issue i am having when applying updates to the standby BOS. After the updates have been applied, the process seems unable to write the boot image to the standby BLV bos_hd5.

    Normal standby BOS creation without applying updates seems to work fine.

    multibos -Xs

    Active boot logical volume is hd5.
    Standby boot logical volume is bos_hd5.
    Creating standby BOS boot image on boot logical volume bos_hd5
    bosboot: Boot image is 30464 512 byte blocks.

    But when creating and applying updates. /mnt is an nfs mount to a remote host with AIX 5.3 TL6

    multibos -Xs -a -l /mnt

    Active boot logical volume is hd5.
    Standby boot logical volume is bos_hd5.
    Creating standby BOS boot image on boot logical volume bos_hd5
    dd: write error: No such device or address
    32946+1 records in
    514+1 records out
    0301-161 bosboot: dd failed to copy bootimage.
    0301-165 bosboot: WARNING! bosboot failed - do not attempt to boot device.
    multibos: 0565-039 Error processing standby BOS boot image.
    multibos: 0565-035 Error setting up standby BOS.

    The same problem happens if i try to apply updates to the standby BOS, after the intial creation of standby BOS.

    Any ideas whats going wrong here ?


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