HP rx4640 11.23 booting failed with system crash

[laul]

Hi all,
my server failed to boot up with the below message. Hope you could provide some advice. Something to configure at EFI manager? Hope not, not too sure how to do that.. Thanks for your help in advance...

This was after the following steps i did.
1. working condition
2. shutdown server
3. Boot up to secondary disk only
4. Boot up failed
5. Boot up to primary disk only
6. Success.. Uptime for 30 mins
7 Shutdown
8. Boot up from primary disk only
9 Boot up failed with same error.
10 Boot up with both disks in.
11. Bootup failed with same error.
Please refer to crash messages below.

*** Start of Error message ***
boot vmunix -lq ...
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Memory Class Setup
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Class PhysMem LockMem SwapMem
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System ...
Kernel ...
User ...
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Loaded ACPI revision 2.0 tables
NOTICE: cacheFS_link(): File System was registed at Index 4
NOTICE: NFS3_link(): File System was registed at Index 4


gio:Error configuring boot device using EFI Hw paths

Serial Console is on the Built in serial interface



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panic: all VFS_MOUNTROOTS failed: Need Drivers ????
Stack Trace:

IP Function Name
0xe vfs_mountroot
0xe im_mountroot
0xe DoCalllist
End of Stack Trace
***

0 buffers not flushed
0 buffers still dirty

*** A system crash has occured. (See the above messages for details)
*** The system is now preparing to dump physical memory to disk, for use
*** in debugging the crash.

*** No dumped space is configured.
Physical memory will not be dumped.

[SoorajCleris]

Hi,

Is this a virtual machine???

Regards,
Sooraj

[SoorajCleris]

Hi,

What was the last change? any patching?

This can be happen becasue of multiple reasons.

Probably driver issue/compatibility, card compatibilities,

which is your current consol?

Regards,
Sooraj

[laul]

No. This is not a VM. Though it seems weird that this msg "gio: Error configuring root device using EFI hw paths" seems to occur on numerous occasions on VMs. While mine's a physical box.

Yes. Patches were applied. I checked the usual readmes and special installation instructions, though i could have missed out something. So, I broke mirror and patched the primary disk. But as described above, both primary and secondary disk failed to boot up. Besides, after patching, the primary disk managed to boot up and start cluster. Other cluster server after patch, also managed to boot up currently.

I unplucked the Fibre at though network is still on during the tries..
Hmm...

[laul]

i'm connected via serial from a dumb terminal to the server.
Also, i was unable to boot to single user mode.
You think booting to another kernel config at the HPUX> will help?
This server is part of a db cluster...