HP-UX 11i June 2002 Release Notes

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December 2001
Ignite-UX version B.3.5 includes the following changes:
• Drivers such as X.25 (nioxb) now have their driver binding preserved during a
recovery. This prevents them from becoming “unclaimed” after a recovery.
• The hw_instance_num config file keyword includes a new optional driver parameter.
See the instl_adm (4) manpage for more information.
• The save_config command now sets the above driver parameter. A check was also
added that ensures that the hardware path is of the format expected by the parser
for HW_instance_num. This fixes the problem introduced by the sdm driver which has
a hardware path of “es” for the virtbus class.
• Ignite-UX servers that have multiple IP addresses assigned to a single network card
now work correctly—as far as doing network boots using instl_bootd is concerned.
However, this does not fix the issue documented in the FAQ item #1.9. The FAQ (a
text file) is installed with Ignite-UX in /opt/ignite/share/doc/FAQ.
• Ignite-UX now supports setting the block size for VxVS file systems. Previously this
was only allowed to default. The user interface now permits this to be set to valid
values and the save_config command saves it in order to restore it for a recovery. A
sanity check now tests for valid values (also covering block sizes for HFS file
systems) and applies this when laying out VxFS file systems.
• If an OS archive image contains volume group files (for example, the directory
/dev/vg00 and the files underneath that), and the major and minor numbers match
ones that have been created but have a different name (like if vg00 was renamed
bpr00), then the /dev/vg00 directory and its contents will be removed and the
action logged to install.log. This avoids problems with commands like swapinfo
which would report incorrect information since it would find /dev/vg00 before
/dev/bpr00.
• Additional sanity checks have been added to check for invalid mount points. This
includes a missing mount point, a null string mount point, and a mount point that
does not begin with a slash (“/”) character.
• The subdirectory /etc/opt/OV (part of OpenView) is now permitted to be a mount
point.
• The make_bundles command was incorrectly putting the entire product into bundles
created when only a list of filesets on the command line were given. This ended up
causing clients added for recovery from the ignite GUI to have the entire Ignite-UX
product loaded instead of the subset needed for make_net_recovery as intended. If
you don’t need the entire Ignite-UX product on the clients (that is, if you don’t use
make_tape_recovery), you can manually remove the Ignite-UX.FILE-SRV-*
filesets on the clients to free up space.
• The make_medialif command no longer prevents the usage of the -a and -o options
to B.11.00 releases and later. There are clients which can run 10.20 and which
require the WINSTALL kernel from the B-version of Ignite-UX in order to be
installed. Now that it is possible to create a LIF header for such 10.20 clients which
would include both WINSTAL and 10.20 SYSCMDS.
• An issue was found that will cause newer PA-RISC workstations running the
B-version of IUX with the HP-UX 10.20 to be unable to boot from a tape created with
either make_tape_recovery or make_recovery. This issue has been fixed with this