setboot problem

[Giacomo TOTTI]

Hello Guys,
I have tried to set on a partition of Superdome Itanium the cdrom as alternate path, but I have the following problem:

HP-UX:/#setboot -a 0/0/11/1/0.2.0
setboot: error accessing boot path - Invalid argument

any ideas?

Giacomo

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi

Is it the harware path listed for CDROM in ioscan list??

Regards
Mahesh

[Giacomo TOTTI]

Of course,

disk 1 0/0/11/1/0.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 305
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0

regards

Giacomo

[Victor_101]

insert a cd in the CDROM and see if you can read , maybe your current user does not have permissions to access the drive.. besides that . should be straightfoward
even ur path looks ok..

[Sudeesh]

Mount a cd and ensure you are able to access. Try issue setboot command, when the CD is mounted ..... this may work ... just a guess .... I dont have a machine available to test.

Sudeesh

[Giacomo TOTTI]

It doesen't work:
hpux:/#mount /dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /cdrom
hpux:/#setboot -a 0/0/11/1/0.2.0
setboot: error accessing boot path - Invalid argument
hpux:/#bdf
.........
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 3413888 3413888 0 100% /cdrom
hpux:/cdrom#cd /cdrom
hpux:/cdrom#pwd
/cdrom
hpux:/cdrom#ll |more
total 2302
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATM-00
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATM2PCI
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATMCORE
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATMHA
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Sep 7 2004 ATMSAM.......
hpux:/cdrom#setboot -a 0/0/11/1/0.2.0
setboot: error accessing boot path - Invalid argument

[Mark Nieuwboer]

Giacome,

Why would you make the cd an alternate path.
You only boot from cd when you want a clean install or has trouble with the root disks.
If you have those troubles you put the cd in the superdoom and boot from it the normal way you boot from cd.

grtz. Mark

[Sudeesh]

You mentioned about partion.. what is it . an nPar ? Have a look at the following document: http://docs.hp.com/en/B3920-90091/ch02s06.html

Which says "systems with hardware partitions support a boot action for each path. However, the boot action for the paths other than the primary path cannot be set using setboot. Instead, these must be set through the Boot Console Handler using the pf command."

Hope this helps

Sudeesh








Sudeesh