Restore hangs before having the menu!! please help help

[kate32]

Hi

I am trying to restore hp-ux 10.0 (I know all is old and not supported but I have no choice at all trust me!) from a makte_tape_recovery from an old HP9000/L2000 anotherto a new one very old also HP9000 AClass for a DR and it is hanging just after leaving IPL and so I never get the change to arrive at the menu for restore!!!

on the IPL I run sea and see only 2 device one for the tape drive seen as follow:
> sea
Path Number Device Path (dec) Device Type
P0 8/16/5.6 Random access media
P1 8/0/20/0.0 LAN Module

> sea ipl
Path Number Device Path (dec) Device Type
P0 8/16/5.6 Random access media IPL
P1 8/0/20/0.0 LAN Module

> bo P0
interact with IPL => I have selected n
booting
boot io dependent code (iodc) revision 144

HARD booted
isl revision a.00.38 oct 26, 1994
isl booting hpux

boot
: disk(8/16/5.6.0.0.0.0.0.;0)/stand/vmunix
3616596 + 339968 + 368320 start 0x167be8

0e000006 00e7e23c0 80000000 00000000

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
Network memory for fragment reassembly is restricted to 11640832 bytes
logical volume 64, 0*3 configured as ROOT
logical volume 64, 0x2 configured as SWAP
logical volume 64, 0x2 configured as DUMP
swap device table : (start & size given in 512-byte blocks)
entry 0 – major is 64 , minor is 0x2; LVM: vg[0]: pvnum=0 (dev_t=0x1f006D

Then it’s hanging at this status and so after 4 hours I power off and restart and later and try again several time same things!!!



I selected y for ISL to see what happens
after y here what I see
Booting
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 144
HARD Booted.
ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994


ISL>ls
filename type start size created
ODE -12960 584 1200 99/04/20 17:34:24
HPUX -12928 4112 848 96/05/28 04:10:13

ISL>hpux ls
: disk(8/16/5.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/.
lost+found system kernel ioconfig bootconf build vmunix rootconf

ISL>hpux show autofile
: disk(8/16/5.6.0.0.0.0.0;0x800000)
AUTO file contains (hpux)


ISL>hpux –v
Release: 10.00
Release Version:
@(#) X.10.20.D HP-UX() #1: May 24 1996 16:39:42

ISL>hpux restore disk (8/16/5.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)
Restore
Cannot open destination




I tried this also
ISL>hpux -lm
Boot
: disk (8/18/16/5.6.0.0.0.0.0;0)/stand/vmunix
3616596 + 339968 + 368320 start 0x167be8


So if someone can help me please please

Thanks in advance

K.

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>I am trying to restore hp-ux 10.0

(I thought the first customer version of 10 was 10.01?)

>from a make_tape_recovery from an old HP9000/L2000 another to a new one very old also HP9000 A Class for a DR and it is hanging

Did this old 10.0 even support these L and A class machines?

[Dennis Handly]

If you were really on 10.20 (X.10.20.D) never mind.

[Patrick Wallek]

I hope you mean HP-UX 11. HP-UX 10.anything did not run on the L-series machines. The L's are 64-bit only and 10.x was 32-bit only, so no luck there.

With the exception of the A180, the A-series machines were 64-bit only as well. The A180 if I recall correctly was the only A-series server the would run HP-UX 10.x.

As far as your error goes, if you are trying to install an A-series from an L-series, then you may have problems due to kernel and driver differences between the servers. I really would be surprised if this worked.

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

ontop of everything else, that has been mentioned. your not actually seeing the tape drive, and are booting off a disk by the looks of it.

you only have 2 items in your search command, the disk at ID6(random access media) and lan.

If you saw the tape drive it would be listed as sequential access media device.

Andy

[kate32]

Hi

Thank you very much for your answer. I am not a specialist HP and I wasn;t usre that seeing random access media would refer to the tape as on the other systems the tape was recognised as Sequentiel but wasn;t sure if it should be the same on all system.
So this is a really good point => I know now why it is not working at the first place but
I didn;t know also that hp-ux version 10 wasn't supported on a L class server... => so this will definitly not work!!!

THANKS very very much now I can stop trying and move on !

You really help me very much!!!!

Cheers
K.

[kate32]

Patrick my mistake
the current production system is running hp-ux version 10 and the sytem is on HP 9000 L class
so this is supported well I mean it is working

but the DR machine that used to restore the OS is an A class

Cheers
K.

[Patrick Wallek]

Absolutely impossible.

The L-series servers positively DO NOT support HP-UX 10. There was NO 64-bit version of HP-UX 10.X and the L-series server are 64-bit ONLY.

Are you absolutely positive that it is HP-UX 10.X?

What does 'uname -a' show and what does 'model' show?

[Patrick Wallek]

Here's some more information regarding the L-series servers:

OS Versions supported:
http://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_l1000_l2000-rp5400_rp5450.html#os

[kate32]

Oh Guys I am so sorry the os is 11.0 not 10 !!! Sorry for that!

You're right and I'm stupid!! I was so confused by the screen trying so many times that I mixed up the version I see and what I want to do

I have asked for a new tape drive to be able to do again a restore

Sorry again don;t hate me

Cheers
K.