rx2600 no boot, console, or efi; only mp

[kenichi]

i have connected a serial line to the "console" connector of the "w" dongle, a vga monitor to the vga port of the mp, and a hp usb keyboard. connecting via minicom, i can ctrl-b, get the mp cmd line. i can power on/off, reset, view log, all via mp... but dropping back to the console, or looking at the monitor, i never receive a boot menu or efi. i have also tried connecting to the serial a port (not on the mp or dongle).

the logs state that the system is powered on/off, an acpi message about same, but that's it. the power light is solid green, and the system light is blinking green. the hard drive spins up, the cd eject button does not work (there is no cd in it). here is the output from 'vfp' mp command:

LEDs: SYSTEM POWER
FLASH GREEN ON
LED State: Running non-OS code. (i.e. Boot or Diagnostics)


Loca-| | | |
tion |Alert| Encoded Field | Data Field | Keyword / Timestamp
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BMC 2 0x2043FB2793021370 FFFF006FFA220300 Type-02 226f00 2256640
21 Feb 2006 14:45:39

i need to get this system booted, please help! :) thanks...

[Geoff Wild]

Did you follow setup:

http://docs.hp.com/en/A9664-90001/A9664-90001.pdf

And check this doc:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5969-3163/5969-3163.pdf

If you are at MP - enter co to get to EFI.

Is this a new system? Did something happen to the hard drive?

Rgds...Geoff

[kenichi]

Yes, I have followed the documentation very carefully. My problem is every time it says, "select ___ from the boot menu", there never is a boot menu. if i drop from the MP to the console using 'CO', i never get any response.

this system originally came with 11.23i on it. at some point, a new drive was swapped in, and linux put on it. currently, i'm trying to get it to boot off the original hp-ux drive. i have reseated the drive a few times.

[Torsten.]

Please check this document:

Default Console: hp integrity rx2600 Server

http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-4238/5971-4238.pdf

[kenichi]

Serial via the SERIAL A connector
Graphics via the VGA port of the ECI (Extended Core I/O)
Serial via the CONSOLE cable of the ECI (Extended Core I/O)

all of these i have tried with known working serial cables, as the mp interface works through the dongle. no response is received on any of these, using minicom 9600n81 for serial or a known working vga monitor.

LAN via the LAN connector of the ECI (Extended Core I/O)

there hasn't been a network cable plugged into the mp unit for as long as we've owned the box, so i haven't tried to get a console on this device. looking at the config for that via mp command 'lc', it's not even setup (loopback address only).

is there any other configuration that would affect this?

[Torsten.]

You need to select the correct console and only one at a time. see this link

http://docs.hp.com/en/5187-2725/ch04s03.html

[Marco Hogeveen_1]

You can try to connect your serial cable to the console port on the server itself (so not the M cable on the MP but the top serial connector on the server).

you might need to press Esc-Shift-Q to go to console output. Esc-Shift9 (Esc-( ) gets you back to the BMC console.

If this doesn't work please post the system event log from MP to this thread, maybe there's something interesting in it.

Marco

[Alan_152]

If you are in the MP, go to SL, select "T"ext", select "A"lert level, "5", then "L"ast. That will give you a list of system messages that are critical failures...

[kenichi]

Thank you all for your responses. Here is what I've done so far, without any luck:

- tried powering on the system with only one of each of the following connections:
minicom 9600,n,8,1 to serial a-console (not part of mp)
minicom 9600,n,8,1 to console branch of mp dongle
monitor to vga port on mp

on the serial a-console connection, i can get to BMC:

cli>con
Console Token Settings
Output
PCI UART :(bus e0/700)/PCI(1|1)Uart(9600 N81)/VenMsg(Vt100+)
VGA :(bus e0/700)/PCI(2|0)

Input
PCI UART :(bus e0/700)/PCI(1|1)Uart(9600 N81)/VenMsg(Vt100+)

Error
PCI UART :(bus e0/700)/PCI(1|1)Uart(9600 N81)/VenMsg(Vt100+)

Debug
Serial 2 :Uart(9600 N81)/VenMsg(Vt100+)

Note: *Listed devices aren't necessarily present*

cli>se
# Sev Generator/Sensor Description Event ID Data, Timestamp
---- - ---------------- ------------ ----------- --------------------------
...
1D70 - Power Button Pressed 0D-14:08:01 2006-02-23 11:54:05
1D80 - BMC Chass cntrl 00-12:70:A3 0E:04 2006-02-23 11:54:05
1D90 - Pwr Spply 1 Ctrl Disabled 44-08:09:00 2006-02-23 11:54:07
1DA0 - ACPI State S5 (off) FA-22:6F:05 2006-02-23 11:54:07
1DB0 - BMC Chass cntrl 00-12:70:A3 81:07 2006-02-23 11:55:09
1DC0 - ACPI State S0 (on) FA-22:6F:00 2006-02-23 11:55:12
1DD0 - Pwr Spply 1 Ctrl Enabled 44-08:09:01 2006-02-23 11:55:13
1DE0 - BMC Chass cntrl 00-12:70:A3 83:07 2006-02-23 12:11:23
1DF0 - BMC Chass cntrl 00-12:70:A3 83:07 2006-02-23 12:34:53
cli>q
Password: ******

Admin Session Initiated.
cli>

i tried esc-shift-q, to no avail. esc-shift-9 is what brought up the BMC password prompt.

on the console branch of the mp dongle, i can get to MP (using ctrl-b), but there do not appear to be any critical messages in the log. using the SL command yields more verbose display of the same things in the BMC SE command.

the vga monitor never turns on. am i just missing something horrendously obvious/stupid?

[Marco Hogeveen_1]

Your input and output devices are set to the MP's serial port and VGA port, so if you don't get any messages there then you maybe just have a hardware problem?.

Try to post the previous boot log, if I can see where it stops then it may be possible to trac where it's going wrong. Or just log a case at HP.