topic Re: booting problem in Operating System - HP-UX

booting problem

Azaru — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:38:04 GMT

Dear All,

Please give me a solution. We have rp7420 server and HP_UX 11.11 os is running on it. When i tried to boot it it shows a msg like the following

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > boot pri

Primary Boot Path: 1/0/4/1/0/4/0.1.4.0.0.0.1

Do you wish to stop at the ISL prompt prior to booting? (y/n) >> y

Initializing boot Device.

Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) Revision 13

Boot Path Initialized.

IPL error: bad LIF magic.

---- Main Menu ---------------------------------------------------------------

Command Description
------- -----------
BOot [PRI|HAA|ALT|] Boot from specified path
PAth [PRI|HAA|ALT] [] Display or modify a path
SEArch [ALL||] Search for boot devices
ScRoll [ON|OFF] Display or change scrolling capability

COnfiguration menu Displays or sets boot values
INformation menu Displays hardware information
SERvice menu Displays service commands

DIsplay Redisplay the current menu
HElp [|] Display help for menu or command
REBOOT Restart Partition
RECONFIGRESET Reset to allow Reconfig Complex Profile
----
Main Menu: Enter command or menu >

Then it returns the same main menu again and agian. Am not able to get the ISL promt.

It will be very thankful if u help me.

Thanks in advance
azaru.

Re: booting problem

YAQUB_1 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:46:34 GMT

Hi Azaru,

After the below output:-

Main Menu: Enter command or menu >

Then U execute "sea" command then which one Ur boot disk select "bo p0/p1" try to this way.

BR/
Yaqub

Re: booting problem

Kenan Erdey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:15:36 GMT

Hi,

lif area may be corrupted. If you have mirror boot disk try to boot from it. And you can repair the lif area by booting from OS CD and recover it from menues.

Kenan.

Re: booting problem

Azaru — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:29:49 GMT

Hi,

I have tried sea command from main menu

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > sea

Searching for potential boot device(s) on the core cell
This may take several minutes.

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

IODC
Path# Device Path (dec) Device Type Rev
----- ----------------- ----------- ----
P0 1/0/0/3/0.6 Random access media 4
P1 1/0/0/3/1.2 Random access media 4
P2 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6 Random access media 4
1/0/2/1/0/4/0.0 Fibre Channel Protocol 13
1/0/4/1/0/4/0.0 Fibre Channel Protocol 13
1/0/6/1/0/4/0.0 Fibre Channel Protocol 13
P3 1/0/12/1/0.15 Random access media 2
P4 1/0/12/1/0.11 Random access media 2
1/0/14/1/0/4/0.0 Fibre Channel Protocol 13

And booted from the all boot disks but the same error it is throwing.

But 1/0/12/1/0.11 from this disk it is booting. Actually it is vpar environment. what the problem is after the system boot there is no vpar commands are working.

Two vpars are there. One vpar in booted by this way.

My question is how to boot other vpar from the booted one.

azaru

Re: booting problem

Kenan Erdey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:45:07 GMT

try vparboot -p

Re: booting problem

Anka — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:58:13 GMT

>sea ipl will give you the list of bootable devices.
Most probably the lif header is corrupt.

The firmware determines from which device to boot via either user input or primary boot path, looks for a LIF header on that device, and if it finds it, it looks in the LIF header for where the ISL starts.

To repare the lif header you can boot from installation DVD or Ignite Image.
Select the "Recovery Main Menu" then "Recover an unbootable HP-UX system".
Then you should have the "Rebuild the bootlif ....." option in the menu and hope it helps you.

After it finishes with the repare you can return to the recovery main menu, reboot the system from the menu and test if it boots now.

Re: booting problem

Mridul Shrivastava — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:09:03 GMT

have yo tried running vparstatus command and check the status of the other vpars ??

I remember that u mentioned that none of the vpar commands are working? Could you please post the error message. How did you identify that system has booted in vpar? could you check the parstatus from OS.
Please check the vfp o/p from MP as well.

Could you please share why the OS was brought down?

Re: booting problem

Sp4admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:47:05 GMT

We had the same problem and it was a bad I/O backplane board. Unplug the fibre and see if it will boot.

sp,

Re: booting problem

Azaru — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:25:23 GMT

thanks