topic Re: Autoboot in Operating System - HP-UX

Autoboot

cmubaya — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:30:54 GMT

Hi,
My station computer (with HPUX 10.20) cannot reboot after a improper shutdown.
I get the following message
Reseting boot device...
Error returned from boot driver =-4
INFORMATION returned from driver
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000028 00000000 00000000
454E4841 00000001 00000000 454E4842
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000002 00000003 00000010 00000000

Boot device error: reading utility into memory
Auto-execute file is inconsistent. Autoboot aborted.

Is somebody can help me to fix this problem.

Is it harddisk failure or RAM dammaged.

Rgds

Re: Autoboot

Ron Cornwell — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:41:10 GMT

The error message you got appears to point to a bad LIF area on your disk. You can check how bad the LIF area is by interrupting the boot sequence, boot from the primary boot path. Select to interact with the ISL. Once at the ISL do a listing of the files in the LIF area. There should be at least ILS, AUTO and HPUX. You can attempt to boot from HPUX and if that is successful recreated the AUTO file once the boot is complete. Otherwise you will have to get the support CD and use that to repair the LIF area.

Re: Autoboot

harry d brown jr — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:43:21 GMT

Make sure your boot path is correct.

Re: Autoboot

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:55:25 GMT

Do you have make_recovery tape..?? try to boot from the tape if you have..

Goodluck
-USA..

Re: Autoboot

Santosh Nair_1 — Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:09:31 GMT

Sounds like the lif area of your boot disk is bad. Do you have a mirror of the boot disk (hopefully with a lif area)? If you do, then try booting off the mirror disk.

-Santosh