topic Boot Failed in Operating System - HP-UX

Boot Failed

Ali Sunderji — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:20:33 GMT

I just received 6 pr2470 ( A500-750) , OS 11.0.

Non of the Boxes will boot up ( I was assured the the OS came factory Installed). HP engineer verified
No bootable LIF area.

I tried booting from an IGNITE Tape created from the A500-550.

Again, no success.

Any Ideas/suggestions

many thanks in advance

Re: Boot Failed

Martin Johnson — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:25:26 GMT

You could try to boot off a maintenance CD and create the LIF area. This assumes the boot disk was created with the "pvcreate -B" option and the LIF area is there but not populated.

If there is no space for the LIF area, you will have to do a cold install. Do a cold install on one machine, and use ignite to clone the rest.

HTH
Marty

Re: Boot Failed

Sandip Ghosh — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:38:43 GMT

Its always better to do a cold install for one Server and then do the ignite recovery on the other four.

The tape what you have created on the existing A class also should work. Can you let us know exactly where it is failing? May be the new A class is having latest CPU, that is why it is failing.

Try to do a interactive recovery from the ignite tape.

Sandip