Boot problem

[Nicholas Gale]

Hi, I am running a J210 with HP-UX 10.20. During normal system reboots, boot is auto-broken at the boot-break prompt. Screen continues to scroll enter command/main menu. Have replaced both keyboard and motherboard battery. The only commands that works to boot is bo and bo fwscsi.6.0. I usually use bo scsi.6.0 but that returns a Init_failure=-7. Any ideas? Lost

[Dietmar Konermann]

Nicholas,

sorry... but for me it's unclear what actual your problem is. Your boot is 'auto-broken at the boot-break prompt'?

Best regards...
Dietmar.

[Nicholas Gale]

When I reboot and the system gives me 10 seconds to press any key, it breaks the boot as if I had pressed a key and sends me to the boot menu and then continues to scroll the enter command prompt... I have auto-boot on along with fast boot. It normally boots from first available device. When I do a search for potential boot devices, all are present. I've reloaded the software and before that reset the boot paths to system defaults. Would cmos have anything to do with this? Our battery did start to die out on the motherboard but I don't even know if this system uses cmos. I hope that clarifies a little for you. Thanks, N

[Steven E. Protter]

Looks like you probably have either a problem with the disk or the firmware(cmos) has indeed forgotten what the settings are.

Try this:

Interupt at the 10 second prompt

bo pri



If you get the same message as above, say kadish(Jewish prayer for the dead) for the disk, its probably dead.

If you've done an Ignite backup you can probably recover the system after replacinig the disk.

If it does boot correctly then your autostart configuration has been lost. This can be reset at the 10 second prompt with the commands available there.

SEP

Forgive my humor if it offends.

[Duncan Galbraith]

What sort of terminal/monitor are you using ?
Does the keyboard plug into you J210 directly or is it through the terminal/monitor ?

When you do get unix up (assuming you can) do you have any other keyboard/mouse problems ?

Duncan

[Nicholas Gale]

To Steven E. Protter: It interupts the 10 second prompt without me doing anything. How do I reset the autostart cofig? The only options I have found are for turning it off or on. I am new to sysadmin. This may be another clue. Like I said about what I usually use to boot, the only commands that work now are "bo" and "bo fwscsi.6.0" Before, I never needed to add the FW on it. ???

To Duncan Galbraith: The keyboard plugs into the cpu via a 50 ft cable and into the back of the rack. I've checked the pins and the cable and both appear fine. The system works great once booted up but I am trying to use crontab for nightly backups and reboots but this cpu is my primary server and I can't reboot the other servers until somebody manually boots the primary jots.
???
Thks, N

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi

Its possible that your primary boot path has got corrupted/changed in stable storage.

Check your primary boot path.
It should correspond to your primary boot disk path.
# setboot (to show primary boot path)
# ioscan -fnkC disk (show hardware path of primary boot disk).
If necessary reset the primary boot path using:
# setboot -p

Cheers
Con

[Nicholas Gale]

Con, setboot comes up as sh:command not found from su user and root. I even tried it in single user. ioscan -fnkC disk shows me the hardware paths but they are correct. And as I said before, setboot isn't recognized... I am new to all of this and I really appreaciate the help. How do you reset your cmos settings? I already reloaded the whole thing. Is this something that might need to be replaced? N

[Duncan Galbraith · Accepted solution]

setboot should be in /usr/sbin/setboot so try using the full path (although your PATH should already be set to /usr/sbin).

You can also set it during boot up. Interupt the boot sequence and you will get a prompt. I think typing d will list the options here.

Also I would try a very much shorter keyboard cable if possible.

Duncan

[Nicholas Gale]

Duncan, You are the man. It worked. I really appreciate the help. V/R Nick