topic Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD in Operating System - HP-UX

bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

John Jimenez — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:55:22 GMT

This is my first cold install.

output from P0 1/0/0/3/0.6 Random access media 4
P1 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6 Random access media 4
1/0/2/1/0.0 Fibre Channel Protocol 10
1/0/4/1/0.0 Fibre Channel Protocol 10
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > bo alt
Alternate Boot Path: 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6
Do you wish to stop at the ISL prompt prior to booting? (y/n) >> n
Initializing boot Device.
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) Revision 4
Boot Path Initialized.
IPL error: bad LIF magic.

Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

John Jimenez — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:00:54 GMT

Maybe something is wrong with DVD. I have never used it. I will boot from the primary and see if I can read the disk.

Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:26:10 GMT

John,

Try with a different media, if that still gives the same error then updgrade the firmware on the machine.

Regards,

Jaime.

Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

John Jimenez — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:30:43 GMT

I am so dumb. I was trying to boot from the other hard disk, which does not have mirrordisk installed. I think my DVD is out. I cannot see it when I ioscan.

# ioscan -fnC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
==========================================================================
disk 0 1/0/0/3/0.6.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0
disk 1 1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GST336754LC
/dev/dsk/c3t6d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t6d0

Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:32:10 GMT

Shalom,

I got this on a PA-RISC 11.31 install a week or so ago.

I was trying to boot off an application disk instead of a core OS DVD.

The coloring is similar.

SEP

Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

Torsten. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:11:01 GMT

I think this is maybe an rp7420 or similar.

1/0/1/1/0/1/1.6 is an internal disk.

Depending on the server model the internal DVD is accessible from the nPar that owns cell1, path is

1/0/0/3/1.2

Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

John Jimenez — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:17:59 GMT

The cable on the DBD was not plugged in. HP came in, took it apart and plugged it in. It now shows up and lets me access.

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

Re: bad LIF magic when booting from DVD

John Jimenez — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:19:15 GMT

thanks again for your responses