HP 9000 L Series

[Bill Hassell]

The L-series (as with most servers) is hardly ever used with a video card. The serial port should have a 3-headed cable attached to it with 3 9-pin connectors. Connect your PC using a crossover cable (probably the error you had before), also known as a null-modem cable. You won't see anything using a straight through cable as transmit and receive are going to the wrong pins.

Set the terminal emulator to 9600 baud, 8n1. Type CTRL-B to get a GSP prompt from the L-series. You can then reboot using the RESET command, then interrupt the boot process to enter single user mode.

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

Hi,

Video is not realy needed.
Telnet to your GSP.
If you get GSP port
tape CO
My be you can get shell prompt !
If not , reboot system.
After self test stop booting.
Press any key until 10 seconds.
in PDC prompt write down:
PDC>bo pri
and
Interact with ISL: Y
In ISL prompt:
ISL> hpux -is
HPUX will boot in single user mod with no password.
Just change root password

# passwd root

and reboot

If you have C2. you are lost :)
Ask for help some HPUX SSE

Ot write me :)

[Naeem Khokhar]

Hi,
I would like to thank everyone for helping me. My null modem cable was bad, as soon I replaced that with a known good cable I was able to telnet and interupt the boot and re-install the OS.

Have a good weekend!

Thanks All!
Naeem