Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

Recovering from boot disk

failure

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ VxVM and boot disk failure

■ Recovering a system by booting from a VxVM root disk mirror

■ Recovering a system by booting from recovery media

■ Initiating VxVM Maintenance Mode Boot

■ Recovery by reinstallation

■ Recovering a system with VxVM boot disk under native multipathing

VxVM and boot disk failure

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

failures and helps you to recover from such events. Recovery procedures help to

prevent loss of data or system access due to the failure of the boot (root) disk.

The procedures for recovering volumes and their data on boot disks differ from

the procedures that are used for non-boot disks.

See “About recovery from hardware failure” on page 9.

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 appropriate 11i version. For information on actions to recover your

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

“Expert Recovery Using the Core Media.”

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