multibos - can I remove hd5 if booted from bos_hd5

Hi,

I'd like to know - can I simply remove all the standard OS lvs - ie hd2, hd5, hd9var, hd10opt hd4, while the system is running on multibos bos_ lv's, and then re-run multibos to re-create the standard lvs?


I'm having an odd problem with a multibos installation.
The system is currently running on the bos_hd5.
I'd like to do a new multibos clone prior to doing an OS update, but multibos won't let me, saying "Maximum number of standby BOS installations already exist".

multibos -R also exits with the following errors:

multibos: 0565-080 Error reading LVCB attribute "fs,mb" of logical volume
bos_hd5.
multibos: 0565-082 Unable to verify multibos tag for standby BOS logical volume
bos_hd5
multibos: 0565-084 Error processing primary boot partition.
multibos: 0565-002 ATTENTION: cleanup did not complete successfully.


I would just reboot back to the other "standard" hd5 image, and start again from there, but it appears that hd4 is missing, so I'd expect a reboot to that image will fail.

So, can I simply remove all the standard OS lvs - ie hd2, hd5, hd9var, hd10opt (and hd4 if it was there), while the system is running on the bos_ lv's, and then re-run multibos?

Will this default to re-creating the standard lvs from the current bos_ lvs?

Are the bos_ lvs and the standard lvs truly equivalent? Or do I risk losing some vital information by doing this?

TIA, Alan.