Yes it is... rootvg :-) mounted at /
But, easier than that was CP IPL 100 PARM SINGLE, no messing around with
detaching/linking mdisks and so on.
But I'll look into Scot's advice of creating a single disk rescue system
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 17:59, Richard Troth vmcow...@gmail.com wrote:
Is
Some good ideas there Scott. :-)
Even though IPL cuu PARM SINGLE is great for getting me into single user
mode, the other nice thing about having the menu reinstated is it lets me
back out a kernel more easily... reboot... choose the older one ... done.
The few second delay in having it time out
RHEL 5.6 on zVM 6.1
I made a change to /etc/pam.d/system-auth and didn't test it before logging
off again. :-(
Now, nobody can logon because they get an error, Module not found. (I must
have fat-fingered the module name I was adding.
OK, no big deal, signal shutdown user x within 300 to bring
If it's really a single disk LVM -- unmount it.. You need to do a pvscan,
vgscan, and then vgchange -ay volume-group.. then mount
/dev/volume-group/logical-volume.And if your other server already uses
the same volume-group name - you will have to rename it before you can
activate the new
Thanks Scott There are other files systems that also use LVM, but I know
the root file system is all on the 100 disk only.
I can't actually unmount anything... but I can shut the whole server down
and log it off.
On my healthy system I can attach (link) the disk, but that's where you're
I meant unmount it from the system you were trying to recover it from -- cuz
you needed to mount is as an LVM -- not as a filesystem. But - the
duplicate vg apparently would have stopped you. I forgot about the SINGLE
parm -- nice one.
Couple recommendations:
- ensure /etc/zipl.conf has the
sorry - bad wording.. you needed to mount it as an LVM -- not a dasd
device..
Scott Rohling
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote:
I meant unmount it from the system you were trying to recover it from --
cuz you needed to mount is as an LVM -- not as a
Is the volume group of the damaged system the same as the volume group of
the repairing system?
-- R;
On Jun 25, 2011 5:49 PM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Scott There are other files systems that also use LVM, but I
know
the root file system is all on the 100
