topic Re: boot error message in Operating System - HP-UX

boot error message

navin — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:12:16 GMT

Hi ,
In the process of creating virtual machine ..
when we try to boot and install from OS on the virtual machine ..it is not booting /installing from dvd .here is the error message. what does this mean...is it not seeing the virtual dvd? or what.appreciate your help much in advance
Thanks
Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\EFI\BOOT\AUTO ==> boot :IINSTALL
Seconds left till autoboot - 0
AUTOBOOTING...Couldn't read ELF header.

loading failed

HPUX>

Re: boot error message

Torsten. — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:29:47 GMT

Hi,

I guess the image is mounted, but not bootable. Looks like the system is attempting to boot from the (virtual) DVD.

How did you create the image?

I successfully did it with this command:
dd if=/dev/rdsk/ of=/image.iso bs=2k

It takes a while, but it's working.

Re: boot error message

Torsten. — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:29:48 GMT

Re: boot error message

navin — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:33:14 GMT

It is a install dvd (1) shipped with the server.
Thanks

Re: boot error message

Torsten. — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:50:22 GMT

To use an ISO image is much faster during install .. please post

# hpvmstatus -P your_vm -v

Re: boot error message

navin — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:13:13 GMT

# hpvmstatus
[Virtual Machines]
Virtual Machine Name VM # OS Type State # vCPUs # Devs # Nets Memory
==================== ===== ======= ======== ======= ====== ====== ===========
host1 4 HPUX On 2 4 1 4 GB

Thanks

Re: boot error message

Torsten. — Mon, 07 May 2007 01:08:13 GMT

The full command like suggested above, please.

Re: boot error message

Tim Nelson — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Navin,

Any solution to this.

Just ran into the same issue..

Have loaded Virtual guests before but now running into same problem.

hpvmmodify -P guest1 -a dvd:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0

( c0t0d0 is device for DVD )

Re: boot error message

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:45:23 GMT

What version of VM software and what DVD image?

In the early days of VMs There were cases where the DVD image contained a compressed kernel and the VM software didn't know how to deal with a compressed kernal (but I think this was all fixed with v2 of VMs)

HTH

Duncan

Re: boot error message

Tim Nelson — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:50:13 GMT

Duncan,

Let me open a new thread ... one moment please.

Re: boot error message

Tim Nelson — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:57:34 GMT

Please disregard... With my new order, HP shipped a really really old version ( i.e. 1.2 )

GEEEEEZZZZZZZZ... ( *#*@&%&^#%! )

Thanks anyway Duncan...