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

impossible boot

Cesar Gonzalez_1 — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:21:54 GMT

Hi. I??ve got problems booting a HP9000 A180. There was problems accesing to the server (it was impossible to access the console, no response to root login). Then I decided to turn off the machine. When It starts in ISL I ran "hpux -lm (;0)/safe/vmunix", and the response is "Boot device not ready"
"Retrying boot device" and now the server doesn??t boot.

Any help please?!?!?

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Re: impossible boot

Helen French — Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:17:19 GMT

Hi Jose,

There will be some hardware problem in your server. At the boot console menu, enter "sea" command to search for all bootable device and find out whether it detects all disks. Check for the boot disk. If you have a root mirror disk, try booting from that.

Also check the PIM information for any type of hardware errors in the system. Check for any type of loose connection/cable.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: impossible boot

Cesar Gonzalez_1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:21:45 GMT

mmh... extrange... I just booted from the bootable disk with "booot p1" and was ok, but it doesn??t recognize the single-user command "hpux -lm ...."

Anyway thanks.

Re: impossible boot

Michael Tully — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:35:07 GMT

Hi,

Suggest you look at your system logs to see if there is anything there to tell you.

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
/var/opt/resmon/event.log
root's mail

It could be that your primary root disk is on the way out.

Michael

Re: impossible boot

Vladislav Demidov — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:35:18 GMT

Hello Cesar,
Do you have the /safe/stand file?
Is that file located on boot file system?
Try just hpux -lm without any additional parameters.

Re: impossible boot

Cesar Gonzalez_1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:32:19 GMT

That??s it, there was no /stand... path (I copy directly from an forum).

Thank??s guys.