topic E45 hangs on boot in Operating System - HP-UX

E45 hangs on boot

Ron Brown_2 — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:10:28 GMT

One of our admins changed the network configuration of our E45 running HP-UX 11.0 and now the server hangs during boot at the NFS server start-up. It states that the server (pid1970@/net) is busy. Is there an easy way around this so I can reset the network settings?

Re: E45 hangs on boot

Pete Randall — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:16:00 GMT

You can either boot into single-user mode (hpux -is at the ISL prompt) or use the break key sequence to cancel out of the NFS startup and then fix your network configuration.

Pete

Re: E45 hangs on boot

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:29:33 GMT

Just a note:

If you have a tape drive, you should get into the habit of making an Ignite backup of vg00

Attaching a script.

SEP

Re: E45 hangs on boot

Ron Brown_2 — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:31:41 GMT

The crt-break sequence was exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Re: E45 hangs on boot

Ron Brown_2 — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:54:45 GMT

Steve:

Thanks for that script. I'm not terribly familiar with Ignite, but I will be.

Re: E45 hangs on boot

Pete Randall — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:01:10 GMT

Ron,

Ignite is available here:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

To add to Steven's "script", I use:

"make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/8mn -I -v -x inc_entire-vg00"

Obviously the "/dev/rmt/8mn" needs to change to match your tape device (Ignite defaults to /dev/rmt/0mn if nothing is specified). Note that you have to use the no-rewind device.

Pete