Boot disks failed on HP UX 11.0 server

[csreenivas]

Both boot disks(mirrored) are failed on HP UX 11.0 sybase server. As we don't have OS CD, we are planning to copy OS from another oracle server.
Planning to remove secondary boot disk on oracle server and copy the OS to the new disk from primary disk.
We will use this disk to boot the sybase server. Looks complicated but we have no other way to boot the server.
can anyone suggest some idea and steps to proceed.

[Ivan Krastev]

Do you have Ignite archive - tape or on the server? Try to recover from there.

regards,
ivan

[csreenivas]

We dont have ignite tape backup. we have ordinary tape backup

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

An ordinary tape back up is useless.

Try switching the disks.

Have hardware come in and diagnose the problem, if its a disk controller and not a disk, you might get lucky.

If the disk is dead and you have no Ignite backup, you will need to rebuild the system from OS media and then restore your data from the currrent backup. All applications will have to be re-installed.

There is no magic here. You were not prepared for this event, it was easy to prepare and now you have to pay the price.

Best bet is to be honest with the lessons learned post mortem analysis.

make_tape_recovery make_net_recovery are you best friends.

SEP

[Tingli]

You still can make an ignite backup from the other oracle server and make a clone, or golden image for the system rebuild.

But you need to read the ignite doc carefully to make it work, although it is not that complicated.

[V. Nyga · Accepted solution]

Hi,

to copy boot disk:
'ioscan -fnC disk' - to find the disks.
then simply:
'dd if=/dev/rdsk/c.... of=/dev/rdsk/c.... bs=32768k'

'if=/dev/rdsk/c....' is the raw device of your boot disk (source)
'of=/dev/rdsk/c....' is your target disk (also raw device!)

bs is the block size - all also explained in the manual 'man dd'.

Be sure about your source and your target ;-)

Then you've a identical boot disk.
Both server would boot with the identical hostname and ip-address(!), so be sure that you can boot the second one - either switch off the first or (if possible) don't boot the second one in your network (depends on network directories, NFS, NIS, ...).

At last you'll have to change hostname and ip-address - use 'set_parms hostname' and 'set_parms ip-address'.

Then you can boot both servers in your network again.

HTh
Volkmar

[V. Nyga]

P.S.
Isn't so complicated - I've done this this week for 4 ws clients ;-)

Good luck
V.

[csreenivas]

Unable to boot with secondary bootable disk, its going to single user mode and I ran fsck but no vain.
We are planning to built the server.
Can anyone help me in getting the HP UX 11.0 OS, HP 9000/898 K370 model. Its very urgent.
Server is located at US.

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>> Unable to boot with secondary bootable disk, its going to single user mode and I ran fsck but no vain.
We are planning to built the server.
Can anyone help me in getting the HP UX 11.0 OS, HP 9000/898 K370 model. Its very urgent.
Server is located at US.<<<<

Are you the Remote-Admin for this Box ..?

> Can anyone help me in getting the HP UX 11.0 OS, HP 9000/898 K370 model. Its very urgent.<<

" EBAY "


pls check with "Local people" i mean the Data Center Operator " located at US
check with them wether do they have "HPUX 11.0" CD, if yes than some-one should pshyical go and Install from CD .. :(

else if you have Ignite_Server, you try Ignite

Or if its under "HP" Manitance" you despatch HP CE , to Install for you, if the server under NO warrantly "than it would Chargeable"

Thanks,
Johnson

[Khairy]

Use ignite.

Ignite is still the best OS recovery tool.

It can also be use to backup and restore it to a diff HP9000 model.Ignite will include all the drivers automatically and build the OS disks.

hpux 11.0 is nolonger avail in hpux software depot. You can download it from here.

http://www.flyupload.com/get?fid=6569345

ps:really appreciate if you could assign some points if this help you.

Rgds