Installing hpux 11.31 on bl860ci2

[Michel Diederiks]

Hi,

I'm trying to install 11.31 on a bl860ci2. The installation process creates vg00 and the lvols's and installs the mini-system. But if gives an error when trying to make the disk bootable:

* Installing boot area on disk.

efi_mkdir: Invalid argument.

Error creating directory / on /tmp/ign_configure/RAMFS/dev/rdisk/disk1_pl

ERROR: /usr/sbin/efi_mkdir returned 25

ERROR: command "sbin/mkboot -e -l /tmp/ign_configure/RAMFS/dev/rdisk/disk1" failed.

I'm trying to get the latest firmware, but the site is extremely slow.

Does anyone has an idea?

Thanks, Michel

[Torsten.]

Sure you have a support 11.31 release for your blades?

(need to look up the minimum)

Hint:

Create a hardware RAID across the internal disks before installing the OS!

This will make disk replacements much, much easier in future!

[Michel Diederiks · Accepted solution]

That might be the problem! I'm using sep 2009 dvd. I will try it with a later release.

Thx.