topic Re: Server Not getting booted in Operating System - HP-UX

Server Not getting booted

Amit Dixit_2 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:32:01 GMT

Hi,
I am having an Hp rx4640 server IA-64 not
getting booted

It stuck at
HP-UX>
please tell me what should I do..
I cannot afford to loose data.

Thanks,
Amit

Re: Server Not getting booted

Shaikh Imran — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 06:55:04 GMT

hi,

What is this status
Is it that your console is stopped ? or
You are stopped at the time of boot ?
By any chance could you login or
could you get into the single user mode..
Are you able to get into the EFI prompt ?
Could yo select EFI shell at the
EFI Boot Manager ?

Regards,

Re: Server Not getting booted

Kent Ostby — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:51:12 GMT

Amit .. assuming you are booted off of the root disk at this time, you can type:

hpux

and hit return and it should boot from there.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

Re: Server Not getting booted

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:54:41 GMT

Hi Amit,

Do you have autoboot set?
setboot -b on
Run setboot by itself to see the settings.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Server Not getting booted

Amit Dixit_2 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:01:55 GMT

Hi,
When the system boots the message appears
"No HPUX filesystem found"

I tried boot, hpux but nothing is working.
Actually Informix got stuck up and one of
the user gave reboot.

After that I am having this problem.

Please help me out I am able to go to EFI
shell and everything.

I cannot afford losing data on this server.

Worst Even if I have to reinstall the O.S.
How can I restore the VG01 which was on
2nd disk.
That is important to me.

Thanks,
Amit

Re: Server Not getting booted

Sundar_7 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:15:06 GMT

Even if you reinstall the OS,Your VG01 will not be affected.

I am not sure if there is an ignite-ux supported on IA-64 yet - do you have a recovery tape of any kind ?

Re: Server Not getting booted

Amit Dixit_2 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:27:03 GMT

Sundar,
I have a recovery tape of same kind of
hardware but from different server.

I can use that tape but my concern is
the VG01.

And when I tried all the available
commands on HP-UX firmware

It still displays VMUNIX not found.
AutoBoot not working.

Thanks,
Amit

Re: Server Not getting booted

Sundar_7 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:38:17 GMT

I am still to work on IA - So cannot help you much here. But one thing you can try.

Try to list all the files in the boot filesystem

hpux ll

see if you have accidently removed vmunix or if you have any old kernels left behind.

Re: Server Not getting booted

Sundar_7 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:38:19 GMT

Re: Server Not getting booted

Sundar_7 — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:40:34 GMT

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Re: Server Not getting booted

Rgomes — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:53:02 GMT

How about:
1. ISL>hpux -is
or
2.ISL>hpux /stand/vmunix.prev
If you can boot from either of above two( 1 or 2), I guess your system disk is ok.

You can also try to boot from OS CD and run 'run recovery shell'.

regards,
Richard

Re: Server Not getting booted

e. james — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:04:25 GMT

At the GSP prompt in the MAin menu, do a ser and see which bootable devices you have. also, check your primary boot patch, is it the disk you expect?

Re: Server Not getting booted

Bharat Katkar — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:53:42 GMT

Hi Amit,

1. HPUX> hpux ll /stand
What does that say.. does this list the files in stand directory. If so search for a backup or old kernel in that.
If you don't see any kernel here then
HPUX> hpux ll /stand/last_install
Here you see the old kernel. Note the name of the file, normally it is vmunix.

2. HPUX> boot /stand/vmunix
or in second case:
HPUX> boot /stand/last_install/vmunix

3. Once the server is booted up try to figure out the problem.

Hope that helps.
REgards,