While attempting to recreate the rootvg in a Sysback restore, an error is received.
After booting off of a Sysback full system backup tape, getting into the Sysback Installation Main Menu and starting the install from tape for cloning to a system with SSA disks, the following errors are received:
Making volume group... /usr/sbin/extendvg [205]: 464 6 killed 0516-792 extendvg: Unable to extend volume group 0516-792 mkvg: Unable to extend volume group Error creating volume group rootvg using defaults 0516-696 mkvg: hdisk0 belongs to another volume group 0516-862 mkvg: hdisk0 belongs to another volume group Start maintenance shell --> y ksh> mkvg -fy rootvg -s 8 hdisk0 hdisk1 mkvg [285]: 4976 killed 0516-862 mkvg: Unable to create volume group ./mkvg[40]: cannot fork: no swap space
The problem is caused by a defect with AIX 4.1 and how it manages memory requirements for the SSA adapter device driver. No matter how much memory is available to the RAMdisk, AIX 4.1 will not reserve enough memory for the SSA adapter. There are two ways to work around this situation: either physically remove the SSA adapters, or create a new boot image that does not include any SSA proto files. The particular case involving this problem in this document describes a previously unencountered problem with performing the restore with Sysback even after the SSA adapters had been physically removed from the affected system.
The process fails when the getlvodm command is run within a system maintenance shell. However, executing the command from the command line allows the process to run.
It has not been determined why the getlvodm command does not run from a script. There may be a possible defect with one of the following filesets: bos.rte.shell, bos.rte.lvm, bos.rte.mp and bos.rte.filesystems. The level of these filesets should be checked.
The AIX 4.1/SSA problem will affect installations from both Sysback and mksysb. The problem occurs during any tape installs, not just when cloning.
Complete the following steps.
getlvodm -v rootvg
getlvodm -P
linstallpv -N [hdisk#] -g vgid -f putlvodm -p vgid pvid
[ Doc Ref: 94466983917294 Publish Date: Dec. 23, 1999 4FAX Ref: none ]