impossible boot

[Cesar Gonzalez_1]

Hi. I??ve got problems booting a HP9000 A180. There was problems accesing to the server (it was impossible to access the console, no response to root login). Then I decided to turn off the machine. When It starts in ISL I ran "hpux -lm (;0)/safe/vmunix", and the response is "Boot device not ready"
"Retrying boot device" and now the server doesn??t boot.

Any help please?!?!?

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[Helen French]

Hi Jose,

There will be some hardware problem in your server. At the boot console menu, enter "sea" command to search for all bootable device and find out whether it detects all disks. Check for the boot disk. If you have a root mirror disk, try booting from that.

Also check the PIM information for any type of hardware errors in the system. Check for any type of loose connection/cable.

HTH,
Shiju

[Cesar Gonzalez_1]

mmh... extrange... I just booted from the bootable disk with "booot p1" and was ok, but it doesn??t recognize the single-user command "hpux -lm ...."

Anyway thanks.

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Suggest you look at your system logs to see if there is anything there to tell you.

/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
/var/opt/resmon/event.log
root's mail

It could be that your primary root disk is on the way out.

Michael

[Vladislav Demidov]

Hello Cesar,
Do you have the /safe/stand file?
Is that file located on boot file system?
Try just hpux -lm without any additional parameters.

[Cesar Gonzalez_1]

That??s it, there was no /stand... path (I copy directly from an forum).

Thank??s guys.