topic Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive in Integrity Servers

Cannot boot from DVD drive

isobhi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:35:45 GMT

Hi,
I am new to hp-ux world
I have rx7620 machine, I am trying to boot the machine from the dvd drive but i can not find an entry in the EFI for it, what should I do??

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

Ganesan R — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:47:08 GMT

Hi,

If the DVD entry is not there in the boot option, you need to add it.

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

Sharma Sanjeev — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:49:06 GMT

Hi Isobhi

At EFI menu you manually need to add entry for DVD Rom

Regards
Sanjeev

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

isobhi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:54:25 GMT

I already tried that, but I think it is not there in the pickup list.
this is the output when i try to add a boot option:

IA64_EFI [Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun5,Lun0)/HD(Part1,SigB
IA64_EFI [Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig9
IA64_EFI [Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig9
Load File [Acpi(HWP0002,8C)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(4|0)/Mac(000F202B652B)]
Load File [EFI Shell [Built-in]]

isobhi

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

TTr — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:57:18 GMT

True as mentioned. For more details see http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=984179

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

melvyn burnard — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:04:48 GMT

So do you have the install media in the drive?
At the EFI screen choose Load from a File, that shoul dthen shoqw the DVD

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

isobhi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:09:08 GMT

I have the DVD in the drive
But the Load from a file shows only the Network adapter (network Boot).

Here is the o/p from

EFI Boot Maintenance Manager ver 1.10 [14.61]

Boot From a File. Select a Volume

IA64_EFI [Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun5,Lun0)/HD(Part1,SigB
IA64_EFI [Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig9
IA64_EFI [Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig9
Load File [Acpi(HWP0002,8C)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(4|0)/Mac(000F202B652B)]
Load File [EFI Shell [Built-in]]
Exit

Device Path Acpi(HWP0002,8C)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(4|0)/Mac(000F202B652B)

Unable to Start PXE

PXE-E12: Could not detect network connection. Check cable.

isobhi

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

Torsten. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:29:08 GMT

Device Path Acpi(HWP0002,8C)/Pci(1|0)/Pci(4|0)/Mac(000F202B652B)

This is LAN!

Please post from EFI

Shell> reconnect -r

Shell> map -r

What DVD is it (contents)?

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

isobhi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:35:51 GMT

Hi
here is the output
reconnect -r

Scsi(Pun5,Lun0) HP 73.4GST373454LC HPC2 (160 MBytes/sec)
Scsi(Pun6,Lun0) HP 73.4GST373454LC HPC2 (160 MBytes/sec)
HP Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is detected (PCI)
PciRom S=00 B=A9 D=1 F=0 I=0 loaded at 40FF916000-40FF954000
HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver v1.23 (0x1.17)
HP XL2 Fibre Channel Driver: Discovery and Configuration of devices might take several minutes...done
ReconnectController(0,0,0) : Status = Success

map -r

fs0 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun5,Lun0)/HD(Part1,SigB32EB13E-B443-11DA-8002-D6217B60E588)
fs1 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig92C30378-40F3-11DA-8002-D6217B60E588)
fs2 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig92C303AA-40F3-11DA-8004-D6217B60E588)
blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun5,Lun0)
blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun5,Lun0)/HD(Part1,SigB32EB13E-B443-11DA-8002-D6217B60E588)
blk2 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun5,Lun0)/HD(Part2,SigB32EB15C-B443-11DA-8003-D6217B60E588)
blk3 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun5,Lun0)/HD(Part3,SigB32EB17A-B443-11DA-8004-D6217B60E588)
blk4 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)
blk5 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part1,Sig92C30378-40F3-11DA-8002-D6217B60E588)
blk6 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part2,Sig92C30396-40F3-11DA-8003-D6217B60E588)
blk7 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(3|0)/Scsi(Pun6,Lun0)/HD(Part3,Sig92C303AA-40F3-11DA-8004-D6217B60E588)

the media is DVD-ROM
HPUX 11i Version 2
Core OS Install and Recovery Version B.11.23

by the way, I can open the media on my laptop.

Regards
isobhi

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

Torsten. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:43:56 GMT

The reconnect doesn't show a DVD - do you have several nPars configured?

The internal DVD is connected to cell1 only.

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

isobhi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:47:56 GMT

Hi

I have only 1 partition.

Regards
Isobhi

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

Torsten. — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:52:35 GMT

It looks to me like only devices connected to cell 0 are listed.

However, please post

Shell> devices

Shell> info all

and from MP

MP:CM> cp

MP:CM> io

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

isobhi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:26:16 GMT

Hi
attached is the output for the a.m. commands.

the io command from the MP menu does not exist.

regards
isobhi

Re: Cannot boot from DVD drive

Torsten. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:43:49 GMT

The primary or default root cell in a single nPartition system is the bottom cell (cell 1).

The internal DVD is per default connected to the core I/O of cell 1.

You have only cell 0, hence the DVD is not connected.

If you plan to reinstall the system, you should consider to swap the cell position.