VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (September 2004)

Recovery from Boot Disk Failure

Introduction

Chapter 2

Introduction

NOTE Rootability, which brings the root disk under Veritas Veritas Volume Manager control, is

supported in this release of VxVM on HP-UX 11i.

Veritas Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) protects systems from disk and other hardware

failures and helps you to recover from such events. This chapter describes recovery

procedures and provides information that help to prevent loss of data or system access

due to the failure of the boot (root) disk.

For information about recovering volumes and their data on non-boot disks, see

Chapter 1, “Recovery from Hardware Failure,” on page 9.

NOTE For additional information, see the HP documentation Web Site at

http://docs.hp.com. Click on Search This Site, search for Ignite-UX Administration

Guide, and select the link to the 11i version. For information on actions to recover your

system, select the section “System Recovery.” Pay particular attention to the information

contained in the subsection “Expert Recovery Using the Core Media.”