These are the steps to disable VM These are the steps you need to follow, so that Volume Manager does not start. Please do the 3 steps for the mirror boot disk as well that is, both vx-rootdisk and vx-cxtxdx 1) boot cdrom -s mount the root filesystem 2) touch /a/etc/vx/reconfig.d/state.d/install-db 3) copy /a/etc/system /etc/system.old Using * to comment out these 2 drivers. rootdev:/pseudo/vxio@0:0 set vxio:vol_rootdev_is_volume=1 Ensure the vfstab reference the solaris partition, you can do the following: (see the /etc/vfstab.prevm for what they used to be - maybe) copy /a/etc/vfstab /etc/vfstab.old copy /a/etc/vfstab.prevm to /etc/vfstab *** NOTE IF you do the edit by hand -get the raw and block devices *** *** two disk devices per slice/partition *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To re-encapsulate the system disk Format Tags 14 & 15 (usually slices 4 & 5) (seen by prtvtoc) so that they are 0 blocks in size (14 should be the entire disk, 15 about 100MB). These are the veritas slices (which may be any set of slices). Use either format-partition-'letter'=>label, or setup an output from prtvtoc and then use fmthard -s filename device. Then go into vxinstall and encapsulate root disk, leave all other disks alone, then it will reboot machine twice, then you must go into vxdiskadm and setup a mirror for the system disk. NOTE: the system disk (primary) is the one the devalias vx-rootdisk points to. Do all actions to this physical drive and then mirror to the other vx-ctd.