topic Re: System stops short of booting all the way up in Operating System - HP-UX

System stops short of booting all the way up

Angie_1 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:23:59 GMT

I imaged a 11.11 C3000 system that has been in the cabinet for a while and it imaged successfully. Problem is when its booting - it can't find the disk.

Says the following:

disk(10/0/15/1.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix
disk(10/0/15/1.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix: cannot open, or not executable
Exec failed: No such file or directory

Now the path does look funny... shouldn't it be 1.6.0 and not all those 0s?

How do I fix this?

Angie

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Sundar_7 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:40:42 GMT

I guess the disk has a usable ISL in its LIF volume but cannot find the vmunix kernel to load.

1) Interrupt the autoboot if you have set it to autoboot
2) enter "boot"
3) Interact with ISL Y or N > Y
4) ISL > hpux ll

the above command will list the contents of /stand file system

5) look if you have vmunix*.

6) if you find anything that starts with vmunix and looks like a kernel, then use "hpux vmunix.something" to boot and take it from there

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Michael Tully — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:42:49 GMT

How many disks are on the system? As the primary boot may be looking at the wrong disk. (I am not familiar with this model)
How did you install the system, ignite tape or CD's?

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Angie_1 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:43:03 GMT

Ok I am going to go try this now and will report back. Thanks for trying to help.

Angie

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Angie_1 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:48:12 GMT

There is just this 1 18-gig disk drive on this system. Installed it from an ignite installation that was of the exact same model of system (have ignited many times before - no real glitches).

Angie

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Angie_1 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:53:18 GMT

Ok I did type "hpux ll" at the prompt and the results were as follows:

ISL> hpux ll

Ls
: disk (10/0/15/1.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/.

dr-xr-xr-x 3 2 2 44 ./
dr-xr-xr-x 3 2 2 44 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 lost+found/

Ideas?

Angie

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Sundar_7 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:57:39 GMT

The disk has a bootable lif volume but apparently /stand file system got messed up. It would probably take you less time to reimage the server than trying to rebuild /stand using recovery CD or something :-)

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Angie_1 — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:01:19 GMT

Ok... I will go ahead and reimage the system now - and report back.

Thanks for input and talk soon.

Angie

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Michael Tully — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:11:34 GMT

Looks like the auto file string failed during the 'mkboot' to the disk. Have a look at the 'mkboot' 'hpux' and 'boot' man pages for a detailed explanation as to what is suppose to happen.

Re: System stops short of booting all the way up

Angie_1 — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:53:06 GMT

Wanted to get back to those of you that responded to me on this issue.

Found out that the C3000 has something wrong with it via the hardware. I swapped out drives... reseated the memory, different ignite tapes and it started rebooting in the middle of ignite sessions and did other flaky things.

So thanks for all the input and I have assigned at least some points just for taking the time.

Thank you all so much! I love this group!

Angie