View source for 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
 <br>
 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
 <br>
 Volume 0 is being activated
 <br>
 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
 <br>
 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
 --------------------------------------------------------
 <br>
 Choose an option: '''1'''
 ------------------ Show Volumes ------------------------
 1 volume is active, 2 physical disks are active
 <br>
 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)
 <br>
 ------------------- RAID MENU --------------------------
 1)  Show volume(s)
 2)  Show physical disk(s)
 3)  Get Volume Status
 <br>
 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
 --------------------------------------------------------
 <br>
 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.  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.

 # '''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        <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  compare to macbase below, if mis-matched, then relabel...
  MD5 hash: 7f666d5c5c279faa7fb7a1d42b43555d

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


'''relabel volume metadata''' 

 # '''gmirror deactivate gmroots1 da0s1'''       (It’s OK if this command returns an error)
 # '''gmirror clear da0s1'''
 # '''gmirror label –v –n –b round-robin gmroots1 da0s1'''

system should now boot!

== links ==
taken from [http://dl3.checkpoint.com/paid/43/RAID.pdf?HashKey=1411187746_b3e9208e053682b1d5b208df8b23cf82&xtn=.pdf raid.doc]

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