topic Re: Same Boot issue different time in Operating System - HP-UX

Same Boot issue different time

Tom Bruce_1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:43:46 GMT

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=25333

Hi guys,

I am having the same problem as the thread above but instead of happening when I am trying to install HP-UX 11i I am having the issue just trying to boot without the alternate boot disk installed. I removed it just as a backup plan in case the install went wrong i could use it to roll back to my previous OS.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Source1= Processor
Source Detail= Processor general

Re: Same Boot issue different time

Cheryl Griffin — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:51:07 GMT

That link appears to have been removed. Can you post the message you are receiving?

Re: Same Boot issue different time

Tom Bruce_1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:15:24 GMT

Below is the message

Thanks for your help

Tom

SYSTEM ALERT **************

SYSTEM NAME:

DATE: 10/08/2004
TIME: 15:06:22

ALERT LEVEL: 12 = Software failure

REASON FOR ALERT
SOURCE: 1 = processor

SOURCE DETAIL: 1 = processor general
SOURCE ID: 0
PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 = no problem detail

LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER
FLASH FLASH
OFF ON ON

LED State: Running non-OS code. Non-critical error detected.

Check Chassis and Console Logs for error messages.

0xF8E000C01100B800 00000000 0000B800 - type 31 = legacy PA HEX chassis-code

0x58E008C01100B800 00006809 080F0616 - type 11 = Timestamp 10/08/2004 15:06:22

A: ack read of this entry - X: Disable all future alert messages
Anything else skip redisplay the log entry

Re: Same Boot issue different time

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:39:45 GMT

Hi,

Maybe this link from itrc will help.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000073698526

the doc id is KBRC00007966.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: Same Boot issue different time

Tom Bruce_1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:08:25 GMT

So now I can see the other messages.
Any ideas what is causing this?
Remember this only happens when I remove the alternate disk before I boot as a backup for the upgrade of 11.i

Thanks

Tom

cessor
96 pbc
97 processor

192 memory
btlan3: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 0/0/0/0....

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
btlan5: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 0/2/0/0....

btlan5: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 0/3/0/0....

btlan5: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 0/9/0/0....

btlan5: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 0/10/0/0....

Entering cifs_init...
Initialization finished successfully... slot is 8

Logical volume 64, 0x3 configured as ROOT

LVM : Activation of root volume group failed

Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing

-----------------------------------------------------
| |
| SYSTEM HALTING during LVM Configuration |
| |
Could not configure root VG

| |
-----------------------------------------------------

System Panic:

linkstamp: Sun Mar 14 08:22:04 EST 2004
_release_version: @(#)B2352B/9245XB HP-UX (B.11.00) #1: Wed Nov 5 22:38:19 PST 1997
__kern_ci_revision: $Header: kern_sequence.c,v 1.6.106.512 97/11/05 18:01:46 msosa Exp $

panic: LVM: Configuration failure

PC-Offset Stack Trace (read across, top of stack is 1st):
0x00325c64 0x0039b89c 0x0039f3b0
0x0039b51c 0x002ac0f8 0x002ad69c
0x0012dda4 0x00252e54
End Of Stack

sync'ing disks (0 buffers to flush): (0 buffers to flush):
0 buffers not flushed
0 buffers still dirty

*** A system crash has occurred. (See the above messages for details.)

*** The system is now preparing to dump physical memory to disk, for use

*** in debugging the crash.

ERROR: Your system crashed before I/O and dump configuration was complete.

A crash dump cannot be taken under these circumstances without
special configuration. Contact your HP support representative.

********** VIRTUAL FRONT PANEL **********
System Boot detected

*****************************************

LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER
FLASH FLASH OFF ON ON

LED State: Running non-OS code. Non-critical error detected.
Check Chassis and Console Logs for error messages.

Re: Same Boot issue different time

erics_1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:31:20 GMT

Tom,

I think this error message is the key:

Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing.

Interrupt the boot sequence and specify booting without quorum from the ISL prompt:

hpux -lq

Regards,
Eric

Re: Same Boot issue different time

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:37:44 GMT

Put your primary disk back in and boot. Next make this change on BOTH the primary and alternate boot disks.

mkboot -a "hpux -lq (;0)/stand/vmunix" /dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ

If you fail to override quorum on both disks you actually make the box LESS likely to boot because both disks will be required to from quorum so that the failure of a single disk (even if it's the alternate) could prevent you from booting.

Re: Same Boot issue different time

Tom Bruce_1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:00:33 GMT

Hi!
Booting from the ISL using hpux -lq worked!
thanks for your help
Appreciate it!

Tom