rx2600 boot failure

[Torsten.]

Do you have hp-ux on that disk?

Not sure if I understand what you did.

This is a part of the output of the "devices" command in EFI:

Shell> devices
...
A0 B X X 1 2 5 LSILOGICLogical Volume 3000
A1 D - - 1 2 - FAT File System [FAT32] 100 MB
A2 D - - 1 2 - FAT File System [FAT32] 400 MB
...

This is a logical drive (hardware RAID), the first partition is FAT32 (EFI partition), the second (not showed) is for hp-ux, the third is FAT32 (HP Service partition) - this is the default disk layout.

[Rob1n]

No, the system's running Redhat Enterprise 3.

The first (boot) disk was working fine - it has a FAT32 (EFI) partition and a number of linux partitions. The second disk was showing as having a FAT32 partition and a linux partition (though the OS settings indicated it should have been a linux swap partition, not FAT32).

The EFI Shell (and boot loader) were trying to read from the FAT32 partition on the second disk (not sure why) and hanging because it wasn't actually formatted as FAT32 (i.e. the partition type for it was incorrect).

Correcting the partition type stopped the system from trying to read from the partition and allowed it to boot normally.

[MALIK ADEEL IMTIAZ]

Dear Torsten,
I am facing the same problem i have hp server rx2600 and it got corrupted.
first off all it has 146G and 320 10K
HDD and when i reboot it with bootable 64 bit Itanium cd. it shows me no CDROM options from where i select CDROM to make fresh installation it hangs.

Kindly help me in this regard

Thanks
Adeel Imtiaz

[Torsten.]

Please open your own thread and attach the output of

Shell> reconnect -r
Shell> map -r
Shell> devices

[Rob1n]

All's still working okay so I'm closing this thread. Looks like the final solution is to check that all partitions marked as FAT32 actually are, and that there's no filesystem corruption.