K210 FLT A088 / 11BF

[Alan Casey]

Hi,

I have a K210 running HP-UX 11.0
I have just installed a PantaSafe product on it and rebooted.

The box fails to boot with the console errors:

FLT A088
FLT 11BF

What do these mean?
Any help appreciated,

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

A088 means that the server was unable to boot. As a consequence, CPU 1 halted, which leads to error 11BF.

What does this PantaSafe product do? A boot failure can be lots of things, from a bad termination (no SCSI bus) to failed hard drive, to loss of boot information on the harddrive.

Could be many things.

HTH,
Vince

[George_Dodds]

Here's the k class trouble shooting doc

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/components/FileAttachment/0,,0x7817cbaac6dcd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.htm

[George_Dodds]

"1xBF" is "Slave CPU halted due to catastrophic boot failure".

[Alan Casey]

Thanks for the info Gerorge & Vincent.
Turns out to be a failure on the core i/o.

A088 is "can't find console"

[Jason Barrett]

I am receiving this same A088 message when booting my D class server. I am running 10.20. I have checked all the cables and have tried the control-d trick. I am still unable to get past the FLT A088 error. Does anyone know of anything else to try? Thank you for the help.

[Xavier Gutierrez]

Hi, Jason

Get your server's system board replaced A.S.A.P.

Regards.

xavier.

[Keiran Sweet_3]

Hi,
Just thougt I would add this to the discussion, although it is rather old.
I have had a D370/9000 system having a similar problem, of which it was not displaying anything on the console, and the LCD display getting the A088 error (No system console found).

I at first suspected the system board was at fault, and after stripping the system down to minimum config. (CPU, RAM, Systemboard) i isolated the fault to a bad remote management card. (modem card).

As this card is not needed for normal system operation, i removed it and the system is running fine.

I dont recommend you working on your own systems, but it could be worth informing your engineer that it could be worth a try when waiting for parts to arrive or the like.

Just thought i might add my experience, cheers.

Keiran

Keiran Sweet
Customer Engineer
HP Sydney

[T Dockery · Accepted solution]

A year and a half later, I had this same problem on an off-support K-460, found this thread in the forum, tried removing the modem, and that appears to have solved it. Well worth trying.