ipldevice is critical to the operation of installing certain products. It should be a hard link of your boot device.
We may receive ipldevice related problem during installation or while taking mksysb backup.
During OS update
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I have received the below error message when I try to update the TL 6100-07-03-1207 from 6100-05-01-1016
installp: An error occurred during bosboot verification processing.
Checking installation of Level 6100-05-01-1016
restarting update. Current Level 6100-05-01-1016
When I check the ipldevice on the location /dev , it is not found.
To solve this problem :
I checked the luns under rootvg
rootvg:
PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION
hdisk25 active 1023 742 204..72..57..204..205
hdisk26 active 1023 870 204..200..57..204..205
To find Which lun is having the boot device hd5
hd5:N/A
LP PP1 PV1 PP2 PV2 PP3 PV3
0001 0001 hdisk25 0001 hdisk26
Goto /dev path and searched for the rhdisk25 and rhdisk26
crw——- 2 root system 17, 26 Jun 17 15:29 rhdisk25
crw——- 1 root system 17, 25 Jul 21 08:52 rhdisk26
Now checked with the major number and minor number like below :-
brw——- 1 root system 17, 26 Jul 21 09:03 hdisk25
crw——- 2 root system 17, 26 Jun 17 15:29 rhdisk25
brw——- 1 root system 17, 25 Jul 21 09:03 hdisk26
crw——- 1 root system 17, 25 Jul 21 08:52 rhdisk26
And didn’t find the ipldevice. Hence created the hardlink from source as character device file.
In our case “rhdisk25”
# cd /dev
# ls -l|grep “17, 26″
brw——- 1 root system 17, 26 Jul 21 09:03 hdisk25
crw——- 2 root system 17, 26 Jun 17 15:29 ipldevice
crw——- 2 root system 17, 26 Jun 17 15:29 rhdisk25
If ipldevice already exist then we have to force the hard link creation
During mksysb backup
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While taking mksysb backup and facing the ipldevice missing problem , then
We can follow the same procedure as shown above.
After performing it, then create the boot image
bootlist –om normal
Now rectified the ipldevice problem and good to go for mksysb backup
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