boot error

[Balasubramanyam Verabat]

I am trying to boot a K-Class Server. While trying to boot from the PRIMARY Boot device it comes up with the following error message.

WAR A0BD
Boot Device Not Ready.
Retrying Boot Device..
Boot Device Not Ready.
Retrying Boot Device..

Could anyone please help in resolving this.

[S.K. Chan]

WARN A0BD (a boot device initialization error) means ..
"entry initialization failure because device not ready"

You probably have a corrupted boot area on your root disk, the system can see it, just could not boot from it.

[Balasubramanyam Verabat]

Could you please let me know how to resolve this problem.

[S.K. Chan]

Is the root disk mirror ?
Do you have a make_recovery tape ?

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

Before booting, stop the boot process. Then type sea ipl. Check whether the bootable disk is visible through here.

HTH,
Vince

[Balasubramanyam Verabat]

I do have an Ignite Image of the root disk. I believe that I need to do make_recovery tape and boot off from it.

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Frist ry to boot from tape ( select run recovery shell) , and run ioscan to see if disk if broken.


If it is broken, of course you must change...

[Nelson Chamba]

Look, i have the same erro but i don´t have the ignite or backup of this system. I can see many path from the SEA command.

Path# Device Path Deice path (mnem) Device Type
-------------------------------------------------------------
P0    8/12.14      Random access media
P1    8/12.13      Random access media
P2    8/12.12      Random access media
P3    8/12.3         Random access media
P4    10/0.15      Random access media
P5    10/0.6        Random access media
P6    10/0.5        Random access media
P7    10/0.4        Random access media
P8    10/8.14     Random access media
P9    10/8.13     Random access media
P10 10/8.12     Random access media
P11 10/8.3       Random access media
P12 10/12.6.0 lan.0 LAN Module
P13 10/16/4.8 Random access media
P14 10/16/4.9 Random access media
P15 10/16/4.10 Random access media
P16 10/16/4.11 Random access media
P17 10/16/8.1 Sequential access media

Can someone help me please.

Regards,

Nelson Chamba\

[Robert_Jewell]

You can see many paths, but how many of these are boot disks?

Try the following:

SEA IPL

That will report drives that have a boot strap installed.  Try booting from each of those.  If none show up, then your boot disk is probably failed.

-Bob

[Nelson Chamba]

Hi Robert,

Now i can see the ISL promt, how can o proceed.

I have the paths:

Primary 10/0.15.0.0.0.0
Alternative 8/12.13.0.0.0.0

Regards,