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nimadm alt migration 5.3 to 6.1 phase8 bosboot failed

  • 1.  nimadm alt migration 5.3 to 6.1 phase8 bosboot failed

    Posted Thu April 01, 2010 09:20 PM

    Originally posted by: alaix


    Hello
    I am doing some migration 5.3 to 6.1 (alternate migration) it is working on some machines but failed on one machine with the following error
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Executing nimadm phase 8.
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Creating client boot image.
    mv: 0653-401 Cannot rename /devaix1_alt/alt_inst/dev/hd5 to /devaix1_alt/alt_inst/dev/hd5.save.368792:
    A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
    0505-158 nimadm: WARNING, unexpected result from the mknod command.
    0505-180 nimadm: Error creating client boot image.
    Cleaning up alt_disk_migration on the NIM master.

    Any idea what I can do to fix it ?

    the aix client is running 5.3 TL9: 5300-09-01-0847
    NIM server is running: 6100-02-03-0909

    all the phase1-phase7 were successfull (migration AIX packages phase6 successfull)

    it failed when trying to create the boot disk.
    I cleaned the disks and retry (chpv -c hdisk1 ; chpv -C hdisk1 and also clear the pv chdev -a pv=clear -l hdisl1) but still have the same error on phase 8.
    I can;t find anything on IBM website about this issue for 5.3.
    If you have an idea please help me.. :-)

    Cheers
    Al
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  • 2.  Re: nimadm alt migration 5.3 to 6.1 phase8 bosboot failed

    Posted Tue April 06, 2010 06:07 PM

    Originally posted by: brook k


    Have your tried mirroring your rootvg to hdisk1 then removing hdisk0 from rootvg and trying the alt disk install to hdisk0? I had an issue at 5.3 TL7 on a test system and swapping the disks dealt with it.
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