RX1620 fails to boot on one out of 4 bootpaths to san disk

[Ronnie Doggart]

Hi,

We have installed an RX1620, with two fibre cards that attach via cisco switches to our EVA5000. The server runs HPUX 11.23 V2 and securepath. The server will boot successfully down 3 of the defined bootpaths but fails constantly on the fourth.

Card 1 Disk on HSV A System Boots
Card 1 Disk on HSV B System Boots
Card 2 Disk on HSV A System Boots
Card 2 Disk on HSV B System Crashes on booting

When the system has booted via any of the working paths we can use securepath to force the server to perform all its I/O down the path that fails during boot and the server continues to operate normally. This I believe eliminates any hardware faults.

Has anyone seen a similar problem, or can suggest how to diagnose the problem further.

Ronnie

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Ronnie,

What point in the boot do you get to? We are currently experiencing a similar problem on a rx4640 with an EMC DMX disk array...

What are the last messages during the boot process before it fails?

Thx

Duncan

[Ronnie Doggart]

Duncan,

See the attached file for a log of the boot process.

Ronnie