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booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

CAS_2 — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:46:27 GMT

Hi.

My HP-UX box cannot boot.

It boots from disk, loads the kernel, shows the "memory info", runs "ioinitrc", "krs_sysinit" and "bcheckrc".

It hangs after bcheckrc: The last message displayed is:

/sbin/bcheckrc:
Checking for LVM volume groups and Activating (if any exist)
Volume group "/dev/vg00" has been successfully changed.

I forced to reboot in single user mode and changed "/etc/lvmrc" in order to prevent the activation of VGs other than vg00 (I thought they were the reason of hanging, because from single-user mode, "vgchange -a y" hung).

But even preventing this, system hangs. I suspect it hangs in the next step after bcheckrc script but I cannot remember what is that next step.
Is init/rc ? -- I cannot reboot other box to check this.

Re: booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

Alex Lavrov. — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:52:44 GMT

I had this problem once and it was a faulty disk in 2300 storage. After the disk was replaced, it booted OK.

What storage is connected to your box?

Alex.

Re: booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

Pete Randall — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:53:42 GMT

The next step after bcheckrc is to run /sbin/rc to bring the system up to default run level. You might want to look for backup files in your /sbin/rc area: things like *conf.bak end up getting parsed along with everything else and can cause confusion at the very least.

Pete

Re: booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

Juan M Leon — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:20:00 GMT

I will suggest to boot the system on single user mode from the CD and run a full fsck on each disk. if you have a mirror you can always boot from the good mirror.

Hope it helps

Re: booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

Rajesh SB — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:40:14 GMT

Hi,

If you are looking for boot information in detail refer this notes.

Regards,
Rajesh

Re: booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

Rajesh SB — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:41:48 GMT

Hi,

If you are looking for boot information in detail refer this notes.

Regards,
Rajesh

Re: booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

CAS_2 — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:35:42 GMT

Hi.

Thanks everyone.