use ignite to build new servers

[lshu]

I have gold image made off rx8640 and am trying to use it for building rx2660 and get following messages:
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Booting from Lan
Obtaining size of AUTO (26 bytes)
Downloading file AUTO (26 bytes)
AUTO ==> boot Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL
AUTOBOOTING...Obtaining size of Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL (63451152 bytes)
Downloading file Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL (63451152 bytes)
> System Memory = 8170 MB
loading section 0
............................................................ (complete)
loading section 1
.............. (complete)
loading symbol table
Obtaining size of Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALLFS (44957696 bytes)
Downloading file Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALLFS (44957696 bytes)
loading ram disk file (Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALLFS).
......................................................................................
(complete)
Launching Rel_B.11.23/IINSTALL
SIZE: Text:30442K + Data:6885K + BSS:5417K = Total:42746K

Console is on a Serial Device
Booting kernel...

HP-UX will call firmware in physical-addressing mode

Memory Class Setup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class Physmem Lockmem Swapmem
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
System : 8170 MB 8170 MB 8170 MB
Kernel : 8170 MB 8170 MB 8170 MB
User : 7503 MB 6537 MB 6563 MB
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Calling function e000000001017aa0 for Shutdown State 8 type 0x2

Stored message buffer up to panic:
ed HP AB465-60001 2Gb PCI/PCI-X Fibre Channel port at hardware path 0/4/1/0/4/0 (FC Port 1 on HBA)
0/4/1/0/4/0 fcd
fcd: Claimed HP AB465-60001 2Gb PCI/PCI-X Fibre Channel port at hardware path 0/4/1/0/4/1 (FC Port 2 on HBA)
0/4/1/0/4/1 fcd
0/4/1/0/6/0 igelan
0/4/1/0/6/1 igelan
120 processor
121 processor
250 pdh
250/0 ipmi
250/1 asio0
250/2 acpi_node
SAS driver at 0/1/1/0 (/dev/sasd0) : SASD Driver fault has occured, a firmware dump will be taken.
Bad News: Cannot use the Kernel Stack when interrupted on the ICS.
... ...
Dirty Registers:
loc0 : e0000001_1e01b040 00000000_00000001 00000000_00000044 00000000_00000000
loc4 : 00000000_0000000d e0000001_1e01e040 e0000001_002ae160 e0000001_1e01b040
loc8 : e0000001_0001f570 e0000001_0001f730 00000000_00000043 00000000_00000c1b
locc : e0000000_014d3ea0 e0000001_0001f560
out0 : e0000001_1e01b040 e0000001_1e01b060 e0000001_0001f570 00000000_00000712

System Panic:

panic: Bad News!

Stack Trace:
IP Function Name
0xe000000000ccc320 bad_news+0x950
0xe000000000ccb340 bubbledown
0xe0000000014a6eb1 sasd_ch_fault_occured+0x4f1
0xe0000000014d3ea0 sasd_isr+0x10570
0xe0000000014c40b0 sasd_isr+0x780
0xe0000000008461a0 release_lock+0x140
0xe000000000845590 external_interrupt+0x3b0
0xe000000000ccb340 bubbledown
0xe000000000676fd0 idle+0x5d0
End of Stack Trace

linkstamp: Fri Jan 13 16:00:36 MST 2006
_release_version: @(#) $Revision: vmunix: B11.23_LR FLAVOR=perf Fri Aug 29 22:35:38 PDT 2003 $

*** 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.

Any help?
Thanks,
Lorne

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Golden images are supposed to be relatively hardware independent.

Though the source server is cell based on the target is not.

Maybe cut a golden image on a server thats a little more toward the same hardware type.

SEP

[Torsten.]

Do you have current hardware patch bundles and serial-scsi drivers installed?

Unlike the rx8640 the rx2660 has a SAS controller. Without a driver the system has no access to the disk.

Also consider to create a integrated RAID for vg00.

Go to http://docs.hp.com -> Servers -> rx2660 -> internal raid for the documentation.

[lshu]

Where do you mean to install hardware patches and SAS driver?

[Steven E. Protter]

AHA!

I think we have our cause.

The rx26xx series needs a SAS driver and there is no way to install such a driver on the source system.

The problem with that theory is as part of the Ignite Golden Image setup process, you were supposed to swcopy the Core OS into the image.

If that Core OS image is before September 2006 it won't install on an rx2660 due to the lack of a SAS driver.

You need to merely rebuild the Core OS portion of the Golden image with September 2006 or later and it should work.

SEP

[Torsten.]

See also this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1134054

and this:

http://docs.hp.com/en/AB463-9010D/AB463-9010D-web.pdf

quote:

"HP recommends the installation of the HP-UX 11i v2 OE Update Release for September 2006 for full HP-UX support with these new servers. Earlier OE releases will require the addition of key HP-UX components from the September 2006 OE release for minimal HP-UX support with new hardware:
..."

[Sameer_Nirmal]

Looking at the Ignite install messages, it seems that the Ignite kernel ( maybe you are using IG-UX C.6.8 or up ) does have sasd driver in it. The driver just faulted maybe on account non-configuration of SAS controller array/devices.

IG-UX have limited supported when it comes to using it with Integrity servers with SAS controllers/devices. Refer the document
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-0511/5992-0511.pdf

As mentioned in the document, create SAS device IM using EFI utilities like drvcfg/cfggen as per document
http://docs.hp.com/en/J6369-90045/index.html

Then try to ignite the server with the golden image. Keep in mind as mentioned already, for this server the golden image should have been created with Sep'-06 OS OE or later. If not, then have the required drivers ( as this server's hardware is different than earlier servers) depots installed on the Ignite server so that they can be installed as a part of Ignite process.

[lshu]

Thanks everyone, these are very good points. What I've tried so far are:
1. upgrade IgniteUX from C.6.7 to C.6.8 and SAS driver error messages went away;
2. system rx2660 can download enough info to get to the ITOOL;
3. in ITOOL UI, there is no local harddisk found in system for Ignite to see;
| Disks: 0 ( 0.0GB) |
4. it doesn't come to the selecting Ignite images yet so I still think it is more ignite / firmware related;
5. I can see fs0, fs1 in EFI Shell;
6. system comes with 11.23.0609 (factory installed) - boot up no problem;

Any thoughts?
Lorne
PS: I'll assign points when I get more sense on how much to each one - just to be fair to everyone.

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Perhaps your ignite version is still not current enough.

From the web:

"Enhancements in the Ignite-UX C.6.9.141 September 2006 media release included the following:
...
Supports new hardware enabled by the HP-UX release"

http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/whatsnew.html

I would consider to install the current version.

[lshu]

Thanks to all, the fix is to upgrade Ignite server to C.6.9 which comes with HP-UX 11.23.0609 version. Ignite can recognize the disk with an alert:
sasd: [ALERT] Driver detected a software downgrade.
sasd: The current driver version is unsupported
sasd: for the Serial SCSI HBA at hw path 0/1/1/0.
sasd: Please install the latest SerialSCSI-00 depot ASAP.

I can build OS from there.
Lorne