VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Recovery

Reinstallation Recovery

Chapter 8340

instructions for loading the Volume Manager (from CD-ROM) in the

VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 for HP-UX Release Notes.

To reconstruct the Volume Manager conﬁguration left on the nonroot

disks,

do not

initialize the Volume Manager (using the vxinstall

command) after the reinstallation.

Recovering the Volume Manager Conﬁguration

Once the Volume Manager package has been loaded, recover the Volume

Manager conﬁguration using the following procedure:

Step 1. Touch /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db.

Step 2. Shut down the system.

Step 3. Reattach the disks that were removed from the system.

Step 4. Reboot the system.

Step 5. When the system comes up, bring the system to single-user mode using

the following command:

# exec init S

Step 6. When prompted, enter the password and press Return to continue.

Step 7. Remove ﬁles involved with installation that were created when you

loaded Volume Manager but are no longer needed using the following

command:

# rm -rf /etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db

Step 8. Start some Volume Manager I/O daemons using the following command:

# vxiod set 10

Step 9. Start the Volume Manager conﬁguration daemon, vxconfigd, in

disabled mode using the following command:

# vxconfigd -m disable

Step 10. Initialize the vxconfigd daemon using the following command:

# vxdctl init

Step 11. Initialize the DMP subsystem using the following command: