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benaicha
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boot hpux

goodmorning guys
powering on the server rx2660

HPUX B11-23 ia-64
mirror disk.

had following troubles:
Loading.: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/1/1/0/0/0/0/0
primary Boot: 0/1/1/0/0/0/0/0 failed: Not Found

Selected boot option: HP-UX HA Alternate Boot: 0/1/1/0/0/0/1/0

Loading.: HP-UX HA Alternate Boot: 0/1/1/0/0/0/1/0

starting HP-UX HA Alternate Boot: 0/1/1/0/0/0/1/0.

is the primary drive died or it's configuration problem.

thanks
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Patrick Wallek
Honored Contributor

Re: boot hpux

Sounds like it's dead.

Do an 'lvlnboot -v' to show the boot disks and then do an 'ioscan -fnC disk' and see if both boot disks show up. If they don't, one is probably dead.

You could also do a 'vgdisplay -v vg00' and see if all disks in VG00 are available.
Sunny123_1
Esteemed Contributor

Re: boot hpux

Hi

Use ioscan -fnC disk and look any unclaimed disk is there or use dd command on the primary disk.



Regards
Sunny
Torsten.
Acclaimed Contributor

Re: boot hpux

The path 0/1/1/0... points to internal disks connected to the built-in SAS controller.

What do you get by running

Shell> map -r

Any fs_ entries there?


Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.

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benaicha
Occasional Contributor

Re: boot hpux

hello,
lvlnboot -v show both disks: c3t1d0s2(0/1/1/0.0.0.1.0)
c3t0d0s2(0/1/1/0.0.0.0.0)
ioscan -fnC both disk shows and are claimed.
vgdisplay -v vg00: both physical disk are availables.
still problem
thanks
R.K. #
Honored Contributor

Re: boot hpux

Hi..

Try the following options:

- Run mkboot on the primary disk
- diskinfo and dd on primary disk
- Check if mirroring is proper else try mirroring the disk if alternate is good.

Regds..
Don't fix what ain't broke
Matti_Kurkela
Honored Contributor

Re: boot hpux

So, if the primary drive is detected by the OS and does not produce any lbolt errors (check the output of the "dmesg" command) it might be a configuration problem.

Maybe whoever installed the OS on the system did it on the alternate disk first and then missed a bootloader installation step while setting up mirroring?

Please run these commands and show the output:

efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s1 /EFI/HPUX
efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s1 /EFI/HPUX

efi_cp -d /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s1 -u /EFI/HPUX/AUTO /tmp/autofile1

efi_cp -d /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s1 -u /EFI/HPUX/AUTO /tmp/autofile0

cat /tmp/autofile1 /tmp/autofile0

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