topic Re: cannot boot system in Operating System - HP-UX

cannot boot system

lawrenzo — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 06:59:02 GMT

Hello,

We have a crash and burn system which looks like it's been pulled apart and put back together;

It has got an O/S but we want to do a fresh install from cd;

from the console menu when you run sea the output is:

searching boot devices press any key to terminate

then immediately terminated session is display.

Run path and it displays pri and alt boot paths

when we try to boot form these the following is display:

cannot find ENTRY_TEST
failed to initialize
ENTRY_INIT
status = -4

can someone help please

chars

Re: cannot boot system

Sundar_7 — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:49:00 GMT

Looks like the disks are not bottable

Try this

BCH> search ipl

if you do a "search ipl" from the boot prompt, it will list only the bootable devices that the PDC sees.

Do you see the pri/alt disk listed ?

Re: cannot boot system

lawrenzo — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:28:56 GMT

Hello Sundar,

Yes the pri and alt disks are displayed when run path

bo ipl doesn't come back with anything!

Re: cannot boot system

lawrenzo — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:25:34 GMT

sorry sea ipl gives the following:

searching boot devices press any key to terminate

then immediately terminated session is display.

Re: cannot boot system

Sundar_7 — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:37:48 GMT

After giving sea ipl, did you press any key ?

If no key is pressed and the display just returns, that indicates system sees no bootable device.

Try booting from the CD, get in to the recovery shell mode and try to recover the boot area

Are you sure the disks have OS on it ?

Re: cannot boot system

lawrenzo — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:42:01 GMT

The disks should have OS on them however someone has moved them from their original slots.

How can you boot form cd when the boot path is not displayed - or is there a generic address for cd:

0/0/0/1/0.1.0 ??

Thanks

Re: cannot boot system

Sundar_7 — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:51:27 GMT

There is no generic address for the CD. H/W path of the CD depends on how it is interfaced with the system.

What are the devices you see when you issue "SEA". The description for the CD will also be Random Access Media (like for the disk).

Re: cannot boot system

lawrenzo — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:54:12 GMT

sea shows

searching boot devices press any key to terminate

then immediately terminated session is display

but i don't press any key!

Thanks

Re: cannot boot system

Victor Fridyev — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:37:29 GMT

Lawrenzo,

Could you please settings of your console. Sometimes consoles produce additional return code.
If you use a dumb terminal, switch it off, press D and switch on. Release the D-key in 10 seconds. This restores all default console parameters.
BTW, what HW model do you have ?

HTH

Re: cannot boot system

lawrenzo — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:20:08 GMT

Its a d class 9000.

But thanks Victor, your advice has worked!

Lawrenzo