HPserver 807S

[Noble Sebastian]

Hi experts ,

I have one old server 807S model , this not booting , I think disk problem ,
How to change disk this server …
Booting prompt ..SEARCH command not working same as SEA …which command using this server ….HP UX which version support this server …
Now using 4 GB scsi disk , I can use hot strable disk though converter …



Thanks …all ….

[Torsten.]

What OS version is running? 9.xx?

This box must be at least 15 years old.

[Noble Sebastian]

hi, HP UX 7, or 8

any idea ..

thanks
Noble

[melvyn burnard]

Well HP-UX 7 and 8 are ancient history I am afraid, and the serevr itself is also a museum piece.
If you still have your install media there should be a diagnostics and recovery tape (or possibly CD)
Use that to try to recover

[Bill Hassell]

If you changed the boot disk, then you must locate the installation media, probably a DDS tape for version 7, dds or CD for later versions. Hopefully you still have some documentation on installing this very old version of HP-UX.

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

I think 10.20 was the last supported version on the 807 family of servers

To boot them you cannot do the search command at BCH as it wasnt available on these older machines. Everything is very specific.

you will have to know the exact boot path

ie, boot 16/8/6.0.0

depending upon the boot path of what you want to boot.

Andy

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

According to openpa, 11.0 will actually run on these machines.

http://www.openpa.net/systems/nova.html

this depends upon your apps though aswell

Andy

[Mike Shilladay]

Hi Noble,

If you have the install media, it maybe more difficult than you think to recover as prior to HP-UX 9, the sections disk layout was utilised. The install will want a disk that is supported by the install and recognised by the sections disk layout. The oldest SE Disks that support this are 2GB. Other common sizes are 1.3GB, 1GB, 670MB and 535MB. Unless you can do something very clever at the install, like break out of the install to add a new disktab entry, then install maybe somewhat tricky. If you have to load HP-UX 8.x then I would look out for one on those elderly disks. I suspect that the 4GB disk may be a bridge too far.

Hope that helps

Mike.