vxbootsetup(1M)

DESCRIPTION

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 1 subdisk and the root and swap volumes must have the appropriate usage type, root and swap respectively.

With no medianame arguments, all disks that contain usable mirrors of the root, swap, /usr and /var volumes are configured to be bootable. If medianame arguments are specified, only the named disks are configured. vxbootsetup requires that the root volume is named rootvol and has a usage type of root. The swap volume is required to be named swapvol and to have a usage type of swap. The volumes containing /usr and /var (if any) are expected to be named usr and var, respectively.

The following utilities call vxbootsetup automatically: vxmirror, vxrootmir, and vxresize. If you use vxassist or vxmake and vxplex to create mirrors of the root volume on a disk, you must call vxbootsetup directly to make that disk bootable.

SEE ALSO

vxassist(1M), vxdisksetup(1M), vxevac(1M), vxinstall(1M), vxintro(1M), vxmake(1M), vxmirror(1M), vxplex(1M), vxresize(1M), vxrootmir(1M), vxvmboot(1M).

The appendix on recovery in the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) System Administrator's Guide; The Volume Manager Installation Guide.