topic Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM in Operating System - HP-UX

HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Francis Flan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:02:27 GMT

Hi,
After finish installing 2nd DVD iso of HPUX v2 guest on IVM3.5 host it reboots and finds this:

Loading.: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0
Load of HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0 failed: Not Found

I've tried to install the guest twice and always the same result.....

thanks for any tips,
Fran

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Torsten. — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:05:23 GMT

If you stop at the guests EFI shell and do a

Shell> map -r

do you get any fsx: entries like fs0: ?

Can you locate the hpux loader from there?

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Torsten. — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:07:00 GMT

and another point came to my mind just after pressing the submit button...

If you configured the disk as AVIO, you need to load the AVIO drivers into the guest.

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Francis Flan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:20:14 GMT

Hi Torsten,

The map command shows fs0 fs1 and some blk's.
How do I install AVIO in the guest?
The host has AVIO installed.

thanks

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Torsten. — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:23:45 GMT

You need to check if fs0 and fs1 is on the still mounted CD or on the disk.

Then locate the loader and try to boot.

fs0:>efi/hpux/hpux.efi

Install the guest AVIO during the initial install

GuestAVIOStor B.11.23.0712 HPVM Guest AVIO Storage Software
GuestAvioLan B.11.23.0712 HPVM Guest AVIO LAN Software

or configure the disk as "normal scsi" from the host and add the driver later.

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Francis Flan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:16:32 GMT

Hi Torsten,
EFI Shell version 1.10 [14.62]
Device mapping table
fs0 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig7242FD3E-1989-11DE-8002-D6217B60E588)
fs1 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig7242FD8E-1989-11DE-8004-D6217B60E588)
blk0 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)
blk1 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig7242FD3E-1989-11DE-8002-D6217B60E588)
blk2 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part2,Sig7242FD66-1989-11DE-8003-D6217B60E588)
blk3 : Acpi(PNP0A03,0)/Pci(0|0)/Scsi(Pun0,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig7242FD8E-1989-11DE-8004-D6217B60E588)

fs0:\> dir:
Directory of: fs0:\

00/00/80 03:04p 536,870,912 ????
1 File(s) 536,870,912 bytes
0 Dir(s)

fs1:\> dir
Directory of: fs1:\

File Not Found
Exit status code: Not Found

fs1:\>

I think i have all the necessary AVIO s/w installed.It is the evaluation version if it makes any difference.
swlist | grep -i AVIO
GuestAVIOStor B.11.23.0712 HPVM Guest AVIO Storage Software
GuestAvioLan B.11.23.0712 HPVM Guest AVIO LAN Software
HostAVIOStor B.11.23.0712 HPVM Host AVIO Storage Software
HostAvioLan B.11.23.0712.01 HPVM Host AVIO LAN Software

It's strange that it doesn't find the VM boot disk
Still have the same probelm

Loading.: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0
Load of HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/0/0/0.0.0 failed: Not Found

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

likid0 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:42:39 GMT

could you paste:

#hpvmstatus -d -P vm

from the host, to check if you have avio configured,

if you have it configuredI would try to use the nomal scsi disk configuration, just to check.

On all the disk devices on that VM, for example
hpvmmodify -P vm -d disk:avio_stor:0,0,1:lv:/dev/vgdatos01/rlvvg00VM
hpvmmodify -P vm -a disk:scsi:0,0,1:lv:/dev/vgdatos01/rlvvg00VM

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Francis Flan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:57:44 GMT

hpvmstatus -d -P HPUXv2_VM
[Virtual Machine Devices]

[Storage Interface Details]
disk:scsi:0,0,0:disk:/dev/rdsk/c2t0d4
dvd:scsi:0,0,1:file://hpvm/guest-images/hpux/11iv2/HPUXv2Dec07_cd1.iso
dvd:scsi:0,0,2:file://hpvm/guest-images/hpux/11iv2/HPUXv2Dec07_cd2.iso

[Network Interface Details]
network:lan:0,1,0xBE1E5B79EBD8:vswitch:vswitch1
network:lan:0,2,0xC6F74A1C1FAF:vswitch:vswitch0

[Misc Interface Details]
serial:com1::tty:console

Can you explain what the normal SCSI configuration is and what the change will do?
The disk above(disk:scsi:0,0,0:disk:/dev/rdsk/c2t0d4) is a SAN disk i created for the VM.

thanks

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

Torsten. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:13:09 GMT

Do you have any multipathing software installed on host?

If you have multiple pathes to your san disk and you have no multipathing software, if your configured path fails your guest has no disk anymore!

You are using "normal" scsi disk not AVIO currently.

Are you sure your installation went successfully?

I noticed you have 2 (!!) individual virtual DVD drives - but you need to use only 1 for both ISO files during installation.

Re: HPUX installing problem on Integrity VM

likid0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:39:20 GMT

Hy,

As torsten says, check that you can access your disk, for example:

diskinfo /dev/rdsk/c2t0d4

And the normal configuration for the dvd, using isos is to use null instead of file, for example:

dvd:scsi:0,2,0:null:/var/opt/iso-images/

where all your isos are in /var/opt/iso-images/ directory.

the from the mp, you can use the IN command to insert and EJ to eject