VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Troubleshooting Guide (September 2004)

Recovery from Boot Disk Failure

Recovery by Reinstallation

Chapter 2

Reinstall VxVM

To reinstall Veritas Volume Manager, follow these steps:

Step 1. Load Veritas Volume Manager from CD-ROM. Follow the instructions in the VERITAS

Volume Manager Installation Guide.

CAUTION To reconstruct the Volume Manager conﬁguration that remains on the non-root disks, do

not use vxinstall to initialize VxVM after loading the software from CD-ROM.

Step 2. Use the vxlicinst command to install the Veritas Volume Manager license key (see the

vxlicinst (1) manual page for more information).

Recover the Veritas Volume Manager Conﬁguration

Once the Veritas Volume Manager packages have been loaded, and you have installed

the license for VxVM, recover the Veritas 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 VxVM but

are no longer needed using the following command:

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

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

# vxiod set 10

Step 9. Start the Veritas 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:

# vxdctl initdmp

Step 12. Enable vxconfigd using the following command:

# vxdctl enable