HP 9000 rp3440 cannot start.

[LuisFSalas]

Hello Torsten again.

I read other message from you in other part of this community saying:

"Re: IPL error: bad LIF magic

Looks like the LIF area of the boot disk is bad and the system can't find another disk to boot.

If the disks are mirrored, try the secondary.

If not, try to repair the boot area of the disks (using the recovery shell on the install DVD)."

I can see the steps to solve this.... the problem is that I have not the installing DVD. It is quite old and administrator of the company in that moment is not anymore here, so I cannot access it. Also, this server has only one (1) HD, so there is not any mirrored disk.

Do you know if I can download this DVD from anywhere?.

Thanks in advance.

Luis.

[LuisFSalas]

Hello again.

Finally I have solved the problem after to replace a lot of hardware.

Fortunatelly I could restore a back-up from the tape thanks to your instructions. Now HP UX-11 is running and server looks to be ok.

My problem now is to access to this server using Hummingbird Exceed. I can connet just with a single session just typing:

xterm&

Then a new window open and I have a terminal screen. My problem is that I need to open a Windows view, as UNIX, with the four desktop in the bottom and the clasic UNIX Windows view.

Please, can you indicate me how to configure this link using Exceed?.

Thank you so much in advance!!

Luis.

[LuisFSalas]

Hello Torsten,

Thank you so much for all your great help and interest.

Finally I could solve the problem with the server. I had many hardware broken, so after to replace almost full elements I could restart the HP UX-11 using the tape (back up) that I had. Now server is not working 100% but UNIX works and I can continue with the rest of the problems (software).

I just want to thank you your great help.

My best regards,

Luis.

[Torsten.]

You are welcome.

For xwindows access, try mobaxterm.

[LuisFSalas]

Hello Torsten,

Thank you for your suggestion. I know MobaXterm but the problen is not in the software of the client. I have read the handbook of Exceed and I know how it works (not in deepth but enought). The problem is UNIX. I think that server has a problem with X windows. I have also downloaded other handbook about X Window and I am trying to configure it.

I will write more next week if I can advance in it.

My best regards.

Luis.

[LuisFSalas]

Hello Torsten, how are you?.

I write you again because I have advanced a little bit but I am still unable to solve the problem.

Just to sumarice, I hava a HP rp3440 server with only one HD. I could repair the server after to replace motherboard, HD, SCSI, and a long etc. of hardware. Now server works ok and my problem is to restore the software.

I have a tape with a backup copy but, unfortunatelly, it is corrupted. I made the backup in 2009 and it is too old.

Now, when I try to restore the system, in some poit I have error coming from the tape, so I have to continue with errors.

* Loading configuration utility...
* Beginning installation from source: /dev/rmt/c4t3d0BEST
======= 08/04/22 13:26:15 EDT Starting system configuration...
* Configure_Disks: Begin
* Mapping LUN Instance Data
* Will install B.11.11 onto this system.
* Using LVM for disk 0/1/1/0.0.0 (c2t0d0), group: vg00
* Creating LVM physical volume "/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0" (0/1/1/0.0.0).
* Creating volume group "vg00".
* Creating logical volume "vg00/lvol1" (/stand).
* Creating logical volume "vg00/lvol2" (swap_dump).
* Creating logical volume "vg00/lvol3" (/).
* Creating logical volume "vg00/lvol4" (/opt).
* Extending logical volume "vg00/lvol1" (/stand).
* Extending logical volume "vg00/lvol2" (swap_dump).
* Extending logical volume "vg00/lvol3" (/).
* Extending logical volume "vg00/lvol4" (/opt).
* Making HFS filesystem for "/stand", (/dev/vg00/rlvol1).
* Making VxFS filesystem for "/", (/dev/vg00/rlvol3).
* Making VxFS filesystem for "/opt", (/dev/vg00/rlvol4).
* Setting rotational delay to 0 for "/stand".
* Configure_Disks: Complete
* Download_mini-system: Begin

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x ./monitor_bpr, 1568768 bytes, 3064 tape blocks
* Download_mini-system: Complete
* Loading_software: Begin
* Installing boot area on disk.
* Enabling swap areas.
* Backing up LVM configuration for "vg00".
* Number of archives to install: 1
* Processing the archive source (Recovery Archive).
* Thu Aug 04 13:29:57 EDT 2022: Starting archive load of the source (Recovery Archive).
* Positioning the tape (/dev/rmt/c4t3d0BESTn).
* Looking for Archive...
* Found the Archive Position. Now load the Archive.
* Archive extraction from tape is beginning. Please wait.

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pax_iux: [offset 0g+1m+0k+566]: I/O error
pax_iux: [offset 0g+1m+0k+566]: I/O error
pax_iux: opt/webadmin/obam/obam5_0.jar : The archive file appears to be corrupt.
pax_iux: /dev/rmt/c4t3d0BEST : This doesn't look like a tar archive
pax_iux: /dev/rmt/c4t3d0BEST : Skipping to next file...
pax_iux: [offset 0g+1m+0k+580]: I/O error
pax_iux: [offset 0g+1m+0k+580]: I/O error
pax_iux: [offset 0g+1m+0k+580]: I/O error

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RROR: Cannot load OS archive (Recovery Archive)

The configuration process has incurred an error, choose one of the following options

1) abort and reboot
2) ignore error and continue
3) push a shell for troubleshooting the problem
(At any time within the shell, type "exit" to return to this menu)

Choose an option from above [1 by default] :2

finally I have a bootable HD with UNIX but a lot of error, so I try to use some CD's with the OS in order to restores it, but I am not able to do CDE to become in operation.

Please, may you help me?.

I have tryed to install CDE from CD-rom but even in this I cannot open a remote Xsession.

My best regards,

Luis.

[LuisFSalas]

Hello Again Torsten,

Can we speak my email (or any other way)?. I'd like to share with you more detailled info (of course, if it is nice for you spent some time ehlping me).

I am not quite sure I can give my email here.

My best regards,

Luis.