– If you tries to restore mksysb with mirrored and unmirrored LV’s they might the following error:

0516-404 allocp: This system cannot fulfill the allocation request.
         There are not enough free partitions or not enough physical volumes
         to keep strictness and satisfy allocation requests.  The command
         should be retried with different allocation characteristics.
0516-822 mklv: Unable to create logical volume.
BOS Install: Could not create the hd5 logical volume.
    ID#        OPTION
      1        Continue
      2        Perform System Maintenance and Then Continue
     Enter ID number:

– The Problem Summary is : Cannot be certain which disk in the install environment maps to which disk in the image.data file
– Problem Conclusion is : Modify image.data and bosinst.data files to match install environment

this article from IBM Site Support and this is the reference
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ46715

but i have good workaround for that issue, on my environment that i take mksysb from it, i have 2 Disks mirrored on rootvg and the LPAR that i want
to restore on it has one Disk, so i added another disk to this LPAR and the backup restored successfully.

if you have VIO Server you can add the disks to it and virtual File systems from VIO to the LPAR and i will explain it on another topic.

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