consol problem

[Gerben Jan Dijkman]

oke it's booted only, the initial thing was to install gentoo linux on it... im afraid i cant boot on this way with the livecd.

[Eric Antunes]

I didn't understood your last post? Did you reach step 5) (Mount /usr, /var and /tmp)??

Is this a Linux server???

[Gerben Jan Dijkman]

yes, but cant find the mount points... so i cant run commands..

[Gerben Jan Dijkman]

and no its a (old) hpux server, But we want to ake him in operation agian with gentoo linux.. but on both hpux and Gentoo we get the same error... only when i boot it is SU mode then it works fine

[Eric Antunes]

Check this doc (specific for Linux):

http://www8.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000065017855

[Eric Antunes]

And search the entire frase "respawning too fast", I'll find it in chapter 7...

[Gerben Jan Dijkman]

hmm the solution there is to edit the innittab... but i cant change it :( so it doenst work...

[Eric Antunes]

Hi,

The idea is to find what has changed since the last time the server booted well...

Why can't you change /etc/inittab?

Can you run and post the results of the following commands:

#tail -1 /etc/shutdownlog
# ll -tr /etc/rc.config.d | tail -10
# ll -tr /sbin/init.d | tail -10
# ll /etc/inittab

[Binukuttan VM_1]

1.Any kernel change was made ?

2.Have you changed permission of /usr/lib ,/sbin or /usr/lib/bin.

3.what is the output of sar -v 1 11.( to check whether maxuprc/nproc values exceeds the current kernel parameters)

4.give cat /etc/rclog|grep ERROR

Good Luck
Binu