AIX Storage Management

However, our reboot hung at some point after the message PERFORM auto-varyon

of Volume Groups was displayed. This suggests that it is either a problem with

what we thought was a valid boot image on hd5x, and/or, that there is a problem

with the new physical partition map that was creation by the AIX Version 4

installation program.

When we checked the new rootvg physical partition map, we found that the hd5x

logical volume had been created on hdisk5 instead of hdisk7. Hence we used the

following commands:

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# migratepv -l hd5x hdisk5 hdisk7

# bosboot -a -l /dev/hd5x -d /dev/hdisk7

bosboot: Boot image is 4275 512 byte blocks.

# bosboot -a -l /dev/hd5 -d ...