topic Re: Failed boot in Operating System - HP-UX

Failed boot

KINGSLEY_1 — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:43:17 GMT

Hi All!

My PA-RISC with hp-ux 11.23 will not boot. I did some basic check and concluded that the primary disk has crashed and the system is not able to boot from the mirrored secondary disk.

Kindly help.

kingsley

Re: Failed boot

Torsten. — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:07:00 GMT

Just to start, capture the system output and post.

From boot menu, do

> search

> bo alt

Re: Failed boot

KINGSLEY_1 — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:17:54 GMT

Hi Totsten!

Below is the outputs:

>search

Path# Device Path (dec) Device Path (mnem) Device Type               Rev
----- ----------------- ------------------ -----------               ----
P0     0/0/2/0.0          ide.0               Random access media       1
P1     0/1/1/0.0          intscsia.0          Random access media       1
P2     0/4/1/0.0                              Random access media       8

>bo alt

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > bo alt
Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> y

Booting...
Failed to initialize with ENTRY_INIT Status = -7

     fffffff9 0 0 0
     0 0 0 0
     0 0 0 0
     0 0 0 0
     0 0 0 0
     454e4841 0 0 454e4841
     0 0 0 0
     0 0 0 0
.... FAILED.

Re: Failed boot

Torsten. — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:39:02 GMT

Same for "pri" - the primary disk?

Please post

Configuration Menu: Enter command > pa

for the pathes and tell what server model it is.

I assume a rp3440?

Re: Failed boot

KINGSLEY_1 — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:05:53 GMT

Hi Torsten!

Here you are.

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > bo pri
Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> n

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1

HARD Booted.

ISL Revision A.00.44 Mar 12, 2003

ISL booting hpux

Boot
: disk(0/1/1/0.0.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix
14766080 + 6602752 + 2144912 start 0x233068

alloc_pdc_pages: Relocating PDC from 0xfffffff0f0c00000 to 0x3e900000.
DoCalllist done

Memory Class Setup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class     Physmem              Lockmem              Swapmem
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
System : 8190 MB              8190 MB              8190 MB
Kernel : 8190 MB              8190 MB              8190 MB
User   : 7640 MB              6657 MB              6683 MB
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

gate64: sysvec_vaddr = 0xc0002000 for 2 pages
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 4.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 7.
td: claimed Tachyon XL2 Fibre Channel Mass Storage card at 0/4/1/0
igelan0: INITIALIZING HP PCI 1000Base-T Core at hardware path 0/1/2/0
igelan1: INITIALIZING HP A6825-60101 PCI 1000Base-T Adapter at hardware path 0/3/1/0

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
Logical volume 64, 0x3 configured as ROOT
LVM: VG 64 0x000000: Quorum check failed!
LVM : Activation of root volume group failed
Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing

        -----------------------------------------------------
        |                                                   |
        |       SYSTEM HALTING during LVM Configuration     |
        |                                                   |
                Could not configure root VG
            If new kernel, ISL> hpux -lm /stand/vmunix; pvck -y /dev/rdsk/....
        |                                                   |
        -----------------------------------------------------

linkstamp: Tue Jan 09 13:34:18 WAT 2007
_release_version: @(#) $Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Mar 19 15:24:05 PST 2004 $
panic: LVM: Configuration failure

PC-Offset Stack Trace (read down, top of stack is 1st):
0x007baf98 (panic+0xc0)
0x006375ec (lv_boothalt+0x7c)
0x0063ac18 (lv_bootconf+0x260)
0x006374ac (lvmconf+0x1e4)
0x0063b5f8 (im_lvmconf+0x28)
0x0083d6b8 (DoCalllist+0x100)
0x0063d368 (main+0x28)
0x0012a384 ($vstart+0x48)
0x00233660 ($locore+0x98)
End Of Stack

Firmware Version 45.44

Duplex Console IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1

Stored message buffer up to panic:
gate64: sysvec_vaddr = 0xc0002000 for 2 pages
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 4.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 7.
0 sba
0/0 lba
0/0/1/0 hcd
0/0/1/0.1 hub
0/0/1/1 hcd
0/0/1/1.1 hub
0/0/1/2 ehci
0/0/2/0 side_multi
0/0/2/0.0 side
0/0/2/0.0.0 tgt
0/0/2/0.0.0.0 sdisk
0/0/2/0.0.7 tgt
0/0/2/0.0.7.0 sctl
0/0/2/0.1 side
0/0/2/0.1.7 tgt
0/0/2/0.1.7.0 sctl
0/1 lba
c8xx BUS: 2 SCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD assigned CPU: 0
0/1/1/0 c8xx
c8xx BUS: 3 SCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD assigned CPU: 1
0/1/1/1 c8xx
0/1/2/0 igelan
0/2 lba
0/3 lba
0/3/1/0 igelan
0/4 lba
0/4/1/0 td
td: claimed Tachyon XL2 Fibre Channel Mass Storage card at 0/4/1/0
0/6 lba
0/7 lba
0/7/1/0 asio0
0/7/1/1 asio0
8 memory
16 ipmi
128 processor
129 processor
0/1/1/0.0 tgt
0/1/1/0.0.0 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97 fcp
0/1/1/0.7 tgt
0/1/1/0.7.0 sctl
0/1/1/1.7 tgt
0/1/1/1.7.0 sctl
0/4/1/0.97.6.19.0 fcparray
0/4/1/0.97.6.255.1 fcpdev
0/4/1/0.97.10.255.1 fcpdev
0/4/1/0.97.33.19.0 fcparray
0/4/1/0.97.33.255.1 fcpdev
0/4/1/0.97.33.19.0.0 tgt
0/4/1/0.97.33.255.1.3 tgt
0/4/1/0.97.33.255.1.3.0 sctl
0/4/1/0.97.33.19.0.0.0 sctl
0/4/1/0.97.6.19.0.0 tgt
0/4/1/0.97.6.255.1.3 tgt
0/4/1/0.97.6.19.0.0.0 sctl
0/4/1/0.97.33.19.0.0.1 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.6.255.1.3.0 sctl
0/4/1/0.97.33.19.0.0.2 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.6.19.0.0.1 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.33.19.0.0.3 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.6.19.0.0.2 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.33.19.0.0.4 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.6.19.0.0.3 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.6.19.0.0.4 sdisk
0/4/1/0.97.10.255.1.3 tgt
0/4/1/0.97.10.255.1.3.0 stape
0/4/1/0.97.10.255.1.3.1 schgr
0/4/1/0.97.10.255.1.3.2 stape
0/4/1/0.97.10.255.1.3.3 sctl
igelan0: INITIALIZING HP PCI 1000Base-T Core at hardware path 0/1/2/0
igelan1: INITIALIZING HP A6825-60101 PCI 1000Base-T Adapter at hardware path 0/3/1/0

System Panic:

linkstamp: Tue Jan 09 13:34:18 WAT 2007
_release_version: @(#) $Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Mar 19 15:24:05 PST 2004 $
panic: LVM: Configuration failure

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

*** A system crash has occurred. (See the above messages for details.)
*** The system is now preparing to dump physical memory to disk, for use
*** in debugging the crash.

ERROR: Your system crashed before I/O and dump configuration was complete.
A crash dump cannot be taken under these circumstances without
special configuration. Contact your HP support representative.

Configuration Menu: Enter command >PA

   Primary boot path:    intscsia.0
                         0/1/1/0.0
                         0/01/01/0.0    (hex)

   Alternate boot path: ide.3
                         0/0/2/0.3
                         0/0/02/0.3     (hex)

Console path: 0/7/1/1.0
0/07/01/01.0 (hex)

Keyboard path: 0/0/4/0.0
0/0/04/0.0 (hex)

MODEL: rp3440

Re: Failed boot

Torsten. — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:48:12 GMT

Looks like the alt path does not exists? The alt path points to an IDE device, but not to the DVD drive ...

Is the disk mirrored at all?

Try maintenance mode.

> bo pri

interact yes

> hpux -lm

Do you got a prompt now?

Re: Failed boot

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:29:14 GMT

I would actually boot with the '-lq' option (for low quorum mode) rather than '-lm' (for LVM maint. mode).

> bo pri

When asked to "Interact with IPL" answer Y

Then do a

> hpux -lq

Re: Failed boot

Torsten. — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:46:44 GMT

Yes, do this please!

LVM: VG 64 0x000000: Quorum check failed!
LVM : Activation of root volume group failed
Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing

Whatever the mirrored disk is.
There is only a single internal disk listed.

Re: Failed boot

KINGSLEY_1 — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:59:08 GMT

Hi !

I am so elated-the problem has been solved. I thank you all, especially torsten for being with me the whole of the day.

Many thanks.

bye.

kingsley