B1000 with HPUX 11.0

[Kiyoung]

Hi everyone.
I,m not good at English.
I use visualize B1000.
When I use it with HPUX10.20, it works well.
I installed HPUX11.0, it sometimes stop working.
(Firmware 2.3 ACE Nov 1999)
What should I check?

Thanks for your help.

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Suggest you upgrade your patches. If you runnning Nov 1999 software, there is at least two years of problems that have been fixed. This can be done with one CD. The latest is December 2001.

-Michael

[S.K. Chan]

HP-UX 11.0 ACE 9911 (64 bit) supports the B1000.

[Kiyoung]

Thanks for help.
I installed XSWGR1100 B11.00.52.2 March,2001.
But there is another problem.

When boot up
ISL Booting hpux reflash
15444 + 8192 + 1046180 start 0x1e01700

Firmware reflash utility : spu HVersion = 0x5bc

Software error detected at line 200

and it stop working.

How can I solve this problem?

But I can boot up system with 'ISL>hpux /stand/vmunix'

Thanks for help.

[S.K. Chan]

Tell me what you see when you run .. (assuming c2t2d0 is your boot disk)

# lifcp /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0:AUTO -

[Kiyoung]

I didn't see that message.
There's only one device (c3t6d0) with LVM(vg00, lvol2 swap, lvol3 /(vxfs), lvol1 /stand(hfs) ).

Thanks.

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

Then you would run this ..
# lifcp /dev/rdsk/c3t6d0:AUTO -
I'm suspecting the boot string in the AUTO LIF file is not correct or corrupted, that's why it is not able to boot up automatically which result in you having to got to ISL and boot it.

The above command will list the content of AUTO and typically it should only have one line that says ..
hpux
or
hpux /stand/vmunix

[Hartmut Lang]

We had freezing-conditions on our B1000 running HPUX11.11.

These were related to "memory issues":
- we had "only" 256Mb RAM.
- HPUX11.11 gets default installed with dynamic buffer cache up to 50% (kernel paramter: dbc_max_pct)
- the default value for swapmem_on is 1 (memory swap is turned on).

I think all these three issues caused the machine to get into long memory thrashing cycles, if our applications needed more dynamic memory.

We added more RAM, changed dbc_max_pct (15%) and swapmem_on (0) and everything is fine.

Hardy

[Kiyoung]

Thank you very much.