Problem booting from the VA

[Laurence Oberman]

Hi,
I have a Superdome partioned 4 ways. Each of the cells has an HBA. Two of the cells are booting off a VA controller.

LUN security is in place to ensure that only the nodes that requires access to the LUNS can see them.

When I reboot the cells that boot off the VA I get a message suggesting that the LUN is unavailable.
bo

Primary Boot Path: 2/0/14/0/0.22.18.0.0.5.1


Do you wish to stop at the ISL prompt prior to booting? (y/n) >> n

Initializing boot Device.


Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) Revision 2


IODC ENTRY_INIT failed. Error Status: -7

0x0000 00000000fffffff9 0000000000000000 00000000fcfc05ca 000000000000012d
0x0004 00000000fc00009d 0000000000000065 00000000fc00009d 0000000000000065
0x0008 00000000fc00009d 0000000000000065 00000000fc00009d 0000000000000065
0x000c 00000000fc00009d 0000000000000065 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x0010 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x0014 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x0018 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0x001c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000


If I reset all the cells and boot the VA served partitions first I can see the disks. Also, if I boot off a CD, I can see the disks without resetting the other partitions.

How can I check access to the SAN hosted disks from the GSP before I attempt to boot, secondly does anybody know why I amseeing this.

Thanks
Laurence Oberman

[Orrin]

Hi,

Look for the wwidmgr command at the SRM prompt.
With this command you can set the wwid's of the HBA for the 2 partitions that boot off the VA.
You have to enable the wwid path/paths to see the device you are booting from.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Orrin.

[Uwe Zessin]

Orrin,
the 'Superdome' is a HP pre-merger product and likely equiped with PA-RISC CPUs running HP-UX operating system. (can't help with the original problem, sorry)

[Laurence Oberman]

Thanks for attempting to help here.
I have additional information. I can leave cells 0 and 4 up, but in order to boot cell 2, I have to first shutdown cell 6.

Very strange. This is not a VA or FC problem, rather seems to be a console/GSP issue.

The Partitions are as follows:

[Partition]
Par # of # of I/O
Num Status Cells Chassis Core cell Partition Name (first 30 chars)
=== ============ ===== ======== ========== ===============================
0 active 1 1 cab0,cell0 mustang
1 active 1 1 cab0,cell4 Spitfire
2 active 1 1 cab0,cell6 nnm
3 active 1 1 cab0,cell2 nnm2