topic Boot problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Boot problem

Dimitri Karagiannis — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:33:44 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm working on an L2000 Class and I was getting Exec Failed: Cannot Find /stand/vmunix or /vmunix when I rebooted the server. I searched in the forums and found some information on booting with an alternate kernel but I couldn't find anything for the Lclass.

If anyone has some info on how to solve this problem it would much appreciated.

Thanks,

Dimitri

Re: Boot problem

Victor BERRIDGE — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:40:55 GMT

Hi Dimitri,
Try to interract with ISL, at the prompt type sea (search for bootable devices) if all seems ok boot pri -is (stay in single user) and see if you can find an explanation....

Good luck

Victor

Re: Boot problem

Steffi Jones_1 — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:42:45 GMT

Hi Dimitri,

you should proabably be a bit concerned if there is no /stand/vmunix file.

If you don't find a kernel on the box you won't be able to boot the box back up.

If you happen to know where a copy of the kernel file would be you could direct the booting to that file.

Is the box up or down at this point?

Steffi Jones

Re: Boot problem

Patrick Wessel — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:44:00 GMT

Dimitri,
Try to boot the system in LVM maintenance mode (hpux -lm). In maintenance mode uses the system another way to get the kernel entry point.

Re: Boot problem

Pramod_4 — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:50:20 GMT

Hi,

First of all, all 800 series boot procedure is same, so there is nothing specific for L-class servers.

It seems that kernel "vmunix" is missing, So try the following:-

Initiate boot from the boot disk ( normally primary boot path )

at the ISL prompt enter the following to boot from the alternate kernel:

hpux -is (;0)/stand/vmunix.prev

it would be better to boot the system in single user mode with " -is " option as the kernel may not be upto date.

You can use "hpux ls" command to list all the files in the boot volume.

If there is no kernel available, u can use Support CD to recover OS.

regards,

Pramod

Re: Boot problem

Devbinder Singh Marway — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:51:03 GMT

Have a look at the following link ,

http://europe-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=9bdb821f0bc05929f5/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000048161831