Help me, please!! Power interruption caused LIF crash

[Jewin]

Hello professionals,

My workstation is C3700, HP-UX B.11.11
After sudden power interruption, I could not reboot the system. The error message:
IPL error:
bad LIF magic: not a valid LIF volume.

I tried to use core recovery CD to rebuild LIF area of my boot disk, but I just got some messages on display:
mkboot -a hpux -lm /stand/vmunix /dev/rdsk/c3t6d0
Not an HFS file system on /dev/dsk/c3t6d0
I have no idea now.
What should I do to recover the system?
Please help me!

Jewin

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Jewin,

You should use the Install CD not the Core OS media.

HTH,
Robert-Jan

[Jairo Campana · Accepted solution]

Jewin
see:
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000066026201

[Camel_1]

Jewin, do you have any ignite backup (network/tape)? If yes try to recovery from ignite.

Simon

[Jewin]

Thanks for your response!

I used
hp-ux 11i
technical computing operating environment

"core oe install and recovery"
version B.11.11
September 2001 B6821-10008

Is this the correct one or not?

Jewin

[Ashwani Kashyap]

Try this link :
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000066026201

[Bharat Katkar]

Just an attempt before going on destructively.
Try doing disk dump of /dev/rdsk/c3t6d0 to some other disk if you have any
dd if=/dev/rdsk/c3t6d0 of=/dev/rdsk/cxtxdx

Use cxtxdx instead to boot with.
Less changes to work but if it works nothing like it!!!!

[Jewin]

I already read the article:
How do I fix the boot message IPL error bad LIF magic at 11.X?

I already followed almost the same procedures, but I still got error message:

"Not an HFS file system on /dev/dsk/c3t6d0"

That's the problem I suffered.

[Steven E. Protter]

Do you have a current make_tape_recovery backup? It might be easier to boot off tape and recovery vg00.

Attaching an example of this type of recovery script.

SEP

[Jewin]

Steven, thanks!

But I didn't make any ignite backup tape.
So, I really got a big trouble now.