So I have an E220 that crapped out and I put the 2 mirrored root
drives drives into another E220.

Getting all sort of VX errors on boot since if I remember correctly,
Veritas cares about the burned in hostid.
--
vxlicrep reports all the installed licenses ok (partial output below):

   License Key                         = 28234751512984179301538426838
   Product Name                        = VERITAS Volume Manager
   License Type                        = PERMANENT

Features :=
   VxVM                                = Enabled

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BUT when I run
vxliccheck -vp
vrts:vxliccheck: INFO:  License 100 invalid
vrts:vxliccheck: INFO:  License 109 invalid
vrts:vxliccheck: INFO:  No valid licenses
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When I try to reinstall licenses, I get:

Error: Invalid hostid. Input license key not valid for this host

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Anything I can do or am I basically screwed?

Thanks
Ron

On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:49:58 AM UTC-7, unix wrote:
> So I have an E220 that crapped out and I put the 2 mirrored root
> drives drives into another E220.
> 
> When I try to reinstall licenses, I get:
> 
> Error: Invalid hostid. Input license key not valid for this host
> 
> -------
> 
> Anything I can do or am I basically screwed?
> 

well, sure. swap the hostid roms.

or, change the "new" one, to be the old one, in software.
For suggestions, see

http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

On Mar 21, 1:37=A0pm, Philip Brown <p...@bolthole.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:49:58 AM UTC-7, unix wrote:
> > So I have an E220 that crapped out and I put the 2 mirrored root
> > drives drives into another E220.
>
> > When I try to reinstall licenses, I get:
>
> > Error: Invalid hostid. Input license key not valid for this host
>
> > -------
>
> > Anything I can do or am I basically screwed?
>
> well, sure. swap the hostid roms.
>
> or, change the "new" one, to be the old one, in software.
> For suggestions, see
>
> http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

WORKED!!!!  U r a genious. thanks!