topic Re: Cannot boot A500, hp-ux 11.0 in Operating System - HP-UX

Cannot boot A500, hp-ux 11.0

dictum9 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:07:30 GMT

I cannot get A500 to boot, it's running 11.0.

I installed a new quad-port NIC and moved the Fibre card to another location. It just doesn't like something. It went into an infinite loop and just keeps rebooting.

What is this "Reboot of system has been requested" stuff?

VxVM VVR INFO V-5-2-3502 Starting Communication Daemon ........................................
..................... N/A
starting HORCM inst 0 HORCM inst 0 has failed to start. starting HORCM inst 1 HORCM inst 1
has failed to start. .... BOOT

Reboot of system has been requested -- rebooting...
* The kernel registry database has been saved to disk.

sync'ing disks (0 buffers to flush):
0 buffers not flushed
0 buffers still dirty

Closing open logical volumes...
Done

Console reset done.

Boot device reset done.

********** VIRTUAL FRONT PANEL **********
System Boot detected
*****************************************
LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER
FLASH OFF OFF OFF ON
LED State: Running non-OS code. (i.e. Boot or Diagnostics)

Re: Cannot boot A500, hp-ux 11.0

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:19:51 GMT

It sounds as if the fibre card is causing you some grief. The HORCM failing to start is problematic.

I would try several things:

1) Remove the fibre card and the new NIC and see if the system boots.

2) Reinstall the fibre card in its original location and see if the system boots.

If this is successful then you could try reinstalling the new NIC, but leave your fibre card in its original location if at all possible.

It is possible that the HORCM software got confused by you moving the fibre card, which changed its HW address.

Re: Cannot boot A500, hp-ux 11.0

dictum9 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:44:47 GMT

It sounds as if the fibre card is causing you some grief. The HORCM failing to start is problematic.

I would try several things:

1) Remove the fibre card and the new NIC and see if the system boots.
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>>>>> If I remove the Fibre card, it books OK.

2) Reinstall the fibre card in its original location and see if the system boots.
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>>>> If everyting is in the original location, it boots just fine. It's me moving things around causes the issue.

>>>>> Reason is, I had to install a new quad-port NIC and had to move the Fibre card and put the new NIC in its place.

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It is possible that the HORCM software got confused by you moving the fibre card, which changed its HW address.
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>>>> Are you saying that the HORCM agent is causing the system to reboot?

Re: Cannot boot A500, hp-ux 11.0

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:00:43 GMT

Just going by the information you have provided, yes it appears to me that the HORCM failing to start is causing the reboot.

The fact that it works with the fibre card in the original location seems to be a good indicator.

What I would now do:

Either research or open a call with HP and try to see if there is any HORCM reconfiguration you need to do when moving a fibre card to a different slot.

I don't use HORCM so I can't tell you if there is or not.

Another test may be to disable the startup of the HORCM agent in /etc/rc.config.d, shut down the server, install the fibre card and the new NIC installed, then restart the server. See if it will boot without the HORCM agent starting. If it does, and you feel brave, you could then try starting HORCM manually and see what happens.

Re: Cannot boot A500, hp-ux 11.0

dictum9 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:42:12 GMT

HORCM daemon causing this - was right on the money. I stopped it and it now boots.

Re: Cannot boot A500, hp-ux 11.0

Torsten. — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:50:04 GMT

Be aware that HORCM is the RAID manager for XP arrays - just in case you need it and now have problems with this...