Nokia boot failed due to raid mirror

Problem

Nokia firewall fails to boot off a RAID pair of drives moved from another chassis. This is because the volume is deactivated when moved between systems.

Errors:

Boot manager loaded.
Entering autoboot mode.
Type any character to enter command mode.
Error: /image on /dev/mirror/gmroots1f
  does not exist or is not a file
umount: /mnt: not a file system root directory
boot failed

Solution

activate raid volume

BOOTMGR[1]> raid
--------------------------------------------------------
 IPSO LSI Logic Configuration Utility
 version : Version 0.5, June 8, 2007
--------------------------------------------------------
 Adapter Type ............. 3 (SAS Adapter)
 PCI Device ID ............ 0x0056
 Hardware Revision ID ..... 0x0004
 Devices in Volume ........ 0
 FW Version ............... (01.18.00.00) decimal
 MPI Version of FW ........ MPI Version 1.5.13.0
--------------------------------------------------------
1) Raid Options Sub-Menu
2) Firmware operations
q) EXIT
--------------------------------------------------------
Choose an option: 1
------------------- RAID MENU --------------------------
1)  Show volume(s)
2)  Show physical disk(s)
3)  Get Volume Status


Options below available from boot manager
-----------------------------------------
10) Disable volume
11) Enable volume
12) Deactivate volume
13) Activate volume
30) Create RAID Volume
31) Delete RAID Volume
q)  Main Menu
--------------------------------------------------------
Choose an option: 13
Volume:  [0-1 or RETURN to quit] 0


Volume 0 is being activated


Changes made, doing a camcontrol rescan
Re-scan of bus 0 was successful
Re-scan of bus 0 was successful
Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle ...... done
------------------- RAID MENU --------------------------
1)  Show volume(s)
2)  Show physical disk(s)
3)  Get Volume Status


Options below available from boot manager
-----------------------------------------
10) Disable volume
11) Enable volume
12) Deactivate volume
13) Activate volume
30) Create RAID Volume
31) Delete RAID Volume
q)  Main Menu
--------------------------------------------------------


Choose an option: 1
------------------ Show Volumes ------------------------
1 volume is active, 2 physical disks are active


Volume 0 is Bus 0 Target 0, Type IM (Integrated Mirroring)
 Volume State:  degraded, enabled, resync in progress
 Volume Settings:  write caching enabled, auto configure
 Volume draws from Hot Spare Pools:  0
 Volume Size 76158 MB, Stripe Size 0 KB, 2 Members
 Primary is PhysDisk 0 (Bus 0 Target 4)
 Secondary is PhysDisk 1 (Bus 0 Target 1)


------------------- RAID MENU --------------------------
1)  Show volume(s)
2)  Show physical disk(s)
3)  Get Volume Status


Options below available from boot manager
-----------------------------------------
10) Disable volume
11) Enable volume
12) Deactivate volume
13) Activate volume
30) Create RAID Volume
31) Delete RAID Volume
q)  Main Menu
--------------------------------------------------------
Choose an option: q
--------------------------------------------------------
1) Raid Options Sub-Menu
2) Firmware operations
q) EXIT
--------------------------------------------------------


Choose an option: q
Re-scan of bus 0 was successful
Re-scan of bus 0 was successful
Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle ..
Type 'boot <enter>' to continue boot process ..

If the device O.S. is ipso 4.x, then you are done and it should be ready to boot. The raid will likely show degraded and resync in progress, but it is usable during the resync.

If ipso 6.x, continue...

relabel volume metadata (ipso 6.x)

check macbase data for mismatch

A mismatch in the mirror metadata for the macbase will cause the mounting of the root file system to fail. This will be the case when trying to boot off a drive pair from another device.

1) Determine the name of the disk device. This varies by platform.

BOOTMGR[2]> sysinfo
CPU 0: 2793 MHz Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Memory: 2100350976 (2004M bytes)
Disk Devices:
       IO port 0x1f0 adc0: unit 0 (ad0): <STI Flash 8.0.0>
               1024MB (2001888 sectors), 1986 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T
       IO port 0x6088 adc2: unit 0 (ad4): <FUJITSU MHY2080BS>
               80026MB (156301488 sectors), 16383 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T

2) Enter maintenance shell

BOOTMGR[5]> sh

This command should result in a new # prompt.

3) Check mac address in the raid label

# gmirror dump da0s1
Metadata on da0:
    magic: GEOM::MIRROR
  version: 4
     name: gmroots1
      mid: 2548360505
      did: 1949224550
      all: 1
    genid: 0
   syncid: 1
 priority: 0
    slice: 4096
  balance: round-robin
mediasize: 79857450496
sectorsize: 512
syncoffset: 0
   mflags: NOAUTOSYNC
   dflags: NONE
hcprovider: 
 provsize: 79857451008
macbase: 0 a0 8e c1 97 10        
 MD5 hash: 7f666d5c5c279faa7fb7a1d42b43555d

4) Check hardware mac address

# ipsctl -a hw:eeprom:mac_addr_base
hw:eeprom:mac_addr_base = 0:a0:8e:be:aa:50

5) compare the mac_addr_base to the macbase above. if mis-matched, then relabel...

relabel volume metadata

# gmirror deactivate gmroots1 ad4s1       (It’s OK if this command returns an error)
# gmirror clear ad4s1
# gmirror label –v –n –b round-robin gmroots1 ad4s1

system should now boot!

links

taken from raid.doc