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

setboot problem

Giacomo TOTTI — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 02:56:21 GMT

Hello Guys,
I have tried to set on a partition of Superdome Itanium the cdrom as alternate path, but I have the following problem:

HP-UX:/#setboot -a 0/0/11/1/0.2.0
setboot: error accessing boot path - Invalid argument

any ideas?

Giacomo

Re: setboot problem

Mahesh Kumar Malik — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 03:50:58 GMT

Hi

Is it the harware path listed for CDROM in ioscan list??

Regards
Mahesh

Re: setboot problem

Giacomo TOTTI — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 04:07:12 GMT

Of course,

disk 1 0/0/11/1/0.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 305
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0

regards

Giacomo

Re: setboot problem

Victor_101 — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:01:14 GMT

insert a cd in the CDROM and see if you can read , maybe your current user does not have permissions to access the drive.. besides that . should be straightfoward
even ur path looks ok..

Re: setboot problem

Sudeesh — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:57:27 GMT

Mount a cd and ensure you are able to access. Try issue setboot command, when the CD is mounted ..... this may work ... just a guess .... I dont have a machine available to test.

Sudeesh

Re: setboot problem

Giacomo TOTTI — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:44:20 GMT

It doesen't work:
hpux:/#mount /dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /cdrom
hpux:/#setboot -a 0/0/11/1/0.2.0
setboot: error accessing boot path - Invalid argument
hpux:/#bdf
.........
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 3413888 3413888 0 100% /cdrom
hpux:/cdrom#cd /cdrom
hpux:/cdrom#pwd
/cdrom
hpux:/cdrom#ll |more
total 2302
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATM-00
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATM2PCI
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATMCORE
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATMHA
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATMSAM.......
hpux:/cdrom#setboot -a 0/0/11/1/0.2.0
setboot: error accessing boot path - Invalid argument

Re: setboot problem

Mark Nieuwboer — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:17:00 GMT

Giacome,

Why would you make the cd an alternate path.
You only boot from cd when you want a clean install or has trouble with the root disks.
If you have those troubles you put the cd in the superdoom and boot from it the normal way you boot from cd.

grtz. Mark

Re: setboot problem

Sudeesh — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:20:45 GMT

You mentioned about partion.. what is it . an nPar ? Have a look at the following document: http://docs.hp.com/en/B3920-90091/ch02s06.html

Which says "systems with hardware partitions support a boot action for each path. However, the boot action for the paths other than the primary path cannot be set using setboot. Instead, these must be set through the Boot Console Handler using the pf command."

Hope this helps

Sudeesh

Sudeesh