EFI: How to search for bootable disks?

[Lynne Seamans]

Just received a "new" (to us) rx5670, that is supposed to have an OS installed.

Won't boot; get
Load olf HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/5/1/0.8.0.110.0.0.1 failed: Not Found

I have no idea if that's a good path or not, so i wanted to search for bootable devices. You used to say "search all" at boot prompt.

Found this document
http://docs.hp.com/en/rx5670_OpsMaint/ch04s01.html
that tells me the equivalent command in EFI is 'bcfg' but i cannot figure out what options to use to make bcfg simply search for bootable devices.

Am i barking up the wrong tree? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

This path looks like an external disk (in SAN) to me.

Start and EFI shell and run "map -r".

Entries like

fs0 ...

are at least readable disks.

Look if there is the system loader "hpux"

fs0:\EFI\HPUX> hpux

[Lynne Seamans]

Yes, it's supposed to be a dedicated fibre san for this machine.

Maybe it's not really seeing it; cause when i run the "map -r" all i'm getting is

blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,0)/Pci(2|1)/Scsi(Pun3,Lun0)

Thanks, btw.

[Torsten.]

Your boot disk is on the SAN or do you expect an internal disk?

At the moment there is only one device visible, but without a valid filesystem.

[Lynne Seamans]

SIGH. Sure it didn't see the external array. Some dummy named "ME" didn't have it powered on.
SIGH.

[Torsten.]

Sometimes the computer is not the problem - it is in front of the system ...

;-))