topic Re: cold installing hp-ux 11 in Operating System - HP-UX

cold installing hp-ux 11

mpaschali — Sun, 29 Jul 2001 05:56:22 GMT

hi all,

I have a remarketed A400 as a development box, which I recieved yesterday. the only problem with it is that I cannot configure it. (ip address, host name etc).

My solution was to re-install the core OS ie cold installing. Only I have bumped into another problem.

The system cannot seam to find a bootable path (I need it to be the cdrom).
ie when I type search or sea I get a response that says session terminated. ( In the main menu)

Has anyone experienced this? Can anyone tell me a way around this?

Thanks

Maria

Re: cold installing hp-ux 11

Michael Tully — Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:33:40 GMT

Hi,

I've not seen this particular problem, however
Is the system still bootable despite not being
able to do an 'SEA' ?
If the system still is bootable try to do an
ioscan as below, to find the hardware path of
your CDROM (DVD-ROM) or
I have four 'A' series server here and the
hardware address for all of these for the CDROM is:

You could try and boot from this address. If they
are anything like the 'D' class this should work.

$ /usr/sbin/ioscan -funC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
======================================================================
disk 0 0/0/1/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 305
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0
disk 1 0/0/1/1.15.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c1t15d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t15d0
disk 2 0/0/2/1.15.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c3t15d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t15d0

HTH
Michael

Re: cold installing hp-ux 11

Michael Roberts_3 — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:46:29 GMT

When you interrupt the boot sequence on the A400 you should see the prompt:

Main Menu: Enter command or menu >

At the prompt enter:
sea ipl

You should see output like:
Searching for device(s) with bootable media
This may take several minutes.

To discontinue search, press any key (termination may not be immediate).

Path# Device Path (dec) Device Path (mnem) Device Type and Utilities
----- ----------------- ------------------ -------------------------
P0 0/0/1/0.3 extscsia.3 Sequential access media
IPL
P1 0/0/1/1.15 intscsia.15 Random access media
IPL
P2 0/0/2/1.15 intscsib.15 Random access media
IPL

==============
This searches for devices that have a boot area on them. The "session terminated" message is a little puzzling since BCH (aka Boot ROM) doesn't do session management. Were you at the GSP> prompt or running the OS?

The "sea" or "search" command only exists in BCH not GSP or in HP-UX.

Re: cold installing hp-ux 11

Eileen Millen — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:51:55 GMT

If you can still boot the old system, the
set_parms commands will allow you to change the IP and setup networking information.