topic Re: Botting problem in C class in Operating System - HP-UX

Botting problem in C class

Sugata — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:26:06 GMT

I am having problem to boot a C class machine.

SEA from boot admin is showing CD (June 1998) as
P0 IDE CD-532E-B

>boot IDE
y to IPL
ISL>hpux -is
exec failed : cannot find /stand/vmunix or /vmunix

although I am able to login in single user mode. During booting it is showing
disk(10/0/15/1.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix

I tried to install OS from CD
>boot IDE install

It is giving error ENTRY_INIT failed, status =-7

Please help me out.

Re: Botting problem in C class

T G Manikandan — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:59:14 GMT

Can you give the hardware path of the CD drive

boot

Also check you are booting from the CORE-OS cd

Re: Botting problem in C class

curt larson_1 — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:08:59 GMT

when you do the boot it should be
boot pri
boot alt
or your case when doing a seach use p(digit)
boot p0

and i'm not sure which version of the os your trying to install but at 11 you don't specify install

do the search to find the pX for your cd
then
boot pX
when asked to interact with isl anwser no

Re: Botting problem in C class

Michael Tully — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:15:37 GMT

If your booting from CD, you don't specify:

ISL> hpux -is

as suggested run
bo
with ISL - N

Can you boot at all ? Or do you want to boot from CD ? What else does the result of SEA show ?

Re: Botting problem in C class

Hoefnix — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:43:10 GMT

Apart from the other responses, you should boot from a cor-OS CDROM that is ment for 700 systems (not 800).
Also I know that in the past there were issues with newer systems then the install media. Try a more recent Core-OS CDROM that supports this 700 C-class system.

Regards,

Peter Geluk

Re: Botting problem in C class

Sugata — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:49:03 GMT

I am having Core-OS CD for unix 10.2.

Now I tried with both the option --- install & without install.

Error message is attached.

Re: Botting problem in C class

Hoefnix — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:00:51 GMT

If you login in single usermode from boot. Not all filesystems are mount. Just run mount /usr and you should see some files and directories created in this area.

I think it still can be some issue with the version of the OS-CDROM not supporting your hardware. I remember we had this problem in 1998 with a newer b-class system. We had to use a more recent install medium as we did in the past.

Hope this helps some bit in solving the problem.

Regards,

Peter Geluk

Re: Botting problem in C class

Sugata — Sat, 20 Dec 2003 02:06:40 GMT

The problem has been resolved. The file system was not mounted properly. I unmounted all ant mounted again. Now it is working fine.

Thanks for your help.