Cannot boot an A500 server

[Jdamian]

Hi

Last days I saw some 'SCSI reset' messages in syslog.log when 'ioscan -f' command is executed.

Now I rebooted the system bu it cannot boot.

It loads kernel and display
Boot
: disk(0/0/1/1.15.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix
7909376 + 1220456 + 1137200 start 0x254ae8

alloc_pdc_pages: Relocating PDC from 0xf0f0000000 to 0x5faab000.

After 5 minutes or more, a GSP system alert is shown and prompted for keyboard typing:

************* SYSTEM ALERT **************
SYSTEM NAME: MBBDDGSP
DATE: 04/09/2003 TIME: 06:32:48
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 00006703 09062030 - type 11 = Timestamp 04/09/2003 06:32:48
A: ack read of this entry - X: Disable all future alert messages
Anything else skip redisplay the log entry


Can anyone help me ?

[Claudiu Schmidt · Accepted solution]

Hi,

have you tried booting lq or is?
is vg00 mirrored? maybe on of the disks has failed, and you need to boot hpux -lq

Claudiu

[Jdamian]

Thanx for all but it was a hw panic due to a bad SCSI terminator.

After disabling "Alert Logs" in GSP, the error message is displayed:

Console reset done.

Boot device reset done.

Stored message buffer up to panic:
: 0
SCSI: Reset detected -- lbolt: 645, bus: 0
SCSI: Reset detected -- lbolt: 662, bus: 0
SCSI: Res...

System Panic:

linkstamp: Tue Dec 17 07:28:01 MET 2002
_release_version: @(#)B2352B/9245XB HP-UX (B.11.00) #1: Wed Nov 5 22:38:19 PS
T 1997
__kern_ci_revision: $Header: kern_sequence.c,v 1.6.106.512 97/11/05 18:01:46 mso
sa Exp $

panic: I/O system hang

PC-Offset Stack Trace (read across, top of stack is 1st):
0x00339ccc 0x00415408 0x000ddba8
0x0003e1a0 0x0034d018 0x00135124
0x0012cb00 0x0013019c
End Of Stack



*** 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

[Rashmi Hegde]

Hello Oscar,

I am facing a similar problem on my A-class server. The boot hangs at alloc_pdc_pages: Relocating PDC from 0xxxxxx.
Can you let me know if you could solve itand how?

TIA
Rashmi.

[Jdamian]

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