Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi everyone,
I want to clone a AIX 5.2 system from a machine to another one.
So i modified bosinst.data and image.data files (according to future platform) before making mksysb on old platform.
After booting on CD and restoring system using mksysb tape, the installation is launched but ever fails when mounting / with following messages :

Log[2]: rm: not found 27 Over mounting /.
No such file or directory
Log[5]: /var/adm/ras/bi.log: cannot create

INIT: EXECUTING /sbin/rc.boot 2

INIT: SINGLE USER MODE

INIT: FATAL ERROR IN /usr/bin/sh
XIX s-shell

Can anyone help me ?

Many thanks in advance,

Fred


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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Don't boot the CD, boot the tape. If you have applied any patches to the OS after using the CD to install, your CD is worthless for recovery boot. This is one of my biggest gripes with AIX. Once you replace the right libraries with patching, your CD is worthless for recovery purposes. I have recovered Solaris 9 operating environments by booting Solaris 7 CD's. Go up one maintenance level in AIX and you are done.

If the system you are cloning is still stable, make a mksysb to tape, and boot the clone with that tape. Make sure you disconnect the ethernet cable before it boots, for obvious reasons.

Anyway, hope this helps.

SG

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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

This is also one of my gripe's for a long time. We have changed from tape mksysb's to using the mkcd to create a bootable DVD for each of our systems. So far this has gotten us around the boot issue because the boot image is at the same level as the mksysb.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,
Thnaks for your answers.
I've tried to boot the tape but the OS didn't boot, probably due to the huge differences between the new hard and the old one.

Now, i've made an installation with preservation of AIX 5.2 ML4 and it's works, but a lot of filesets where deleted.

Another question : how to get a set of CDs of AIX 5.2 ML7 with AIX 5.2 ML4 and upgrade CDs of AIX 5.2 ML7 ?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

In the past we've order a software refresh from the support line, but I'm under the impression this is no longer possible.

The direction was to be able to order them online, but I do not have the link for this yet. We have not ordered a refresh in awhile. If I find out anything further I'll post it here.


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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I ran into the same problem. Luckily the system I made the mksysb on was still up and running, so I could use the steps in /usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/README to create a bootable CD of the same level as the mksysb. Mksysb restore is running right now (on a different machine), hopefully this works.
But does this mean that you have to make a new bootable CD every time you increase the Maintenance Level on your machine ? Just making periodic mksysb's doesn't seem to be enough ...
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