VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Recovery from Boot Disk Failure
Introduction
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Introduction
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 11.
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.”