vxbootsetup(1M) VxVM 3.5 vxbootsetup(1M)
1 Jun 2002
NAME [Toc] [Back]
vxbootsetup - set up system boot information on a VERITAS Volume
Manager disk
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
/etc/vx/bin/vxbootsetup [medianame ... ]
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
The vxbootsetup utility configures physical disks so that they can be
used to boot the system. Before vxbootsetup is called to configure a
disk, the required volumes, standvol, rootvol and swapvol (and
optionally, dumpvol) must be created on the disk. All of these
volumes must be contiguous with only one subdisk.
If no medianame arguments are specified, all disks that contain usable
mirrors of the root, swap, /usr and /var volumes are configured to be
bootable.
If medianame arguments are given, only the disks that are associated
with the specified disk names are configured to be bootable.
vxbootsetup requires that:
+ The root volume must be named rootvol and must have a usage type
of root.
+ The swap volume must be named swapvol and must have a usage type
of swap.
+ The volumes containing /usr and /var (if any) must be named usr
and var, respectively.
See the chapter "Recovery from Boot Disk Failure" in the VERITAS
Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide for detailed information on how
the system boots and how VxVM impacts the system boot process. The
vxmirror, vxrootmir, and vxresize utilities call vxbootsetup
automatically. If you use vxassist, or vxmake and vxplex to create
mirrors of the root volume on a disk, you must run vxbootsetup
explicitly to make the disk bootable.
ARGUMENTS [Toc] [Back]
medianame
Specifies the disk name (disk media name) of a VM disk that is to
be configured as bootable.
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
disksetup(1M), edvtoc(1M), vxassist(1M), vxevac(1M), vxinstall(1M),
vxintro(1M), vxmake(1M), vxmirror(1M), vxplex(1M), vxresize(1M),
vxrootmir(1M)
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VERITAS Volume Manager Troubleshooting Guide
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