topic Re: Problem with boot in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem with boot

Jose_129 — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:33:04 GMT

I have one workstation HP 9000 700 Series Model 715/100 with problems when initiating boot.
When workstation this initiating and presents the problem the LED display are the following:
1,7 when initiating
3,4,6,7 Start Auto Boot
3,4 isl booting
1,2,4 Dump fail

Re: Problem with boot

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:38:35 GMT

Hi Jose,

Hard to tell for sure, but that looks like something *during* boot is causing a panic & *trying* to write a crash dump - which fails as well. So that's possibly two failures - the first being whatever is causing the panic & then the fact that the dump can't be written. But the latter could be a simple configuration problem dealing with the dump device setup.
Take a look in /var/tombstone IF you can ever get it up.
TRY to boot in single-user mode (hpux -is) & manually mount filesystems - if possible.

Good Luck,
Jeff

Re: Problem with boot

Jose_129 — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:30:16 GMT

but I cannot accede to the workstation, like doing this?

Re: Problem with boot

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 23:24:20 GMT

Do you get to the point where it asks if you wish to interrupt boot? Where you get the 10 second countdown?
If so - stop it there with ANY key & type

bo pri

Then it will ask if you wish to interact - answer y
and at that prompt- do

hpux -is

That get's you to single-user mode.

Let us know if you can get that far or not.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: Problem with boot

Jose_129 — Sat, 07 Jun 2003 00:12:09 GMT

the equipment is a workstation, i can't to do that.

Re: Problem with boot

Ross Zubritski — Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:43:44 GMT

Dump fail??? lvol2 hosed?

try hpux -is from bch

Regards,

RZ

Re: Problem with boot

Steve Labar — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 14:50:04 GMT

Has anything changed since your last successful boot? It sounds as if the system is doing a panic while loading your kernal. Has your kernal changed? If so try booting from previous kernal. At isl prompt type hpux /stand/vmunix.prev Another problem could be if your swap space has changed since last successful boot. Make sure all drives are plugged in correctly. If nothing else has changed, you might want to boot into LVM Maintenance mode and have a look around hpux -lm /stand/vmunix

Good Luck.

Steve