BOOT PROBLEMS

[chaabaoui]

Hi,
When my server HP 9000 UX 11.00 booted, This message was displayed.

ALERT LEVEL: 6 = Boot possible, pending failure - action required

REASON FOR ALERT
SOURCE: 8 = I/O
SOURCE DETAIL: 9 = serial SOURCE ID: 0
PROBLEM DETAIL: 3 = functional failure

What does this error mean? Thanks for any help

when I run the command 'dmesg', this page is displayed

# dmesg

Mar 31 10:39
gate64: sysvec_vaddr = 0xc0002000 for 1 pages
NOTICE: autofs_link(): File system was registered at index 3.
NOTICE: nfs3_link(): File system was registered at index 5.
0 sba
0/0 lba
0/0/0/0 btlan3
0/0/1/0 c720
0/0/1/0.1 tgt
0/0/1/0.1.0 stape
0/0/1/0.2 tgt
0/0/1/0.2.0 sdisk
0/0/1/0.7 tgt
0/0/1/0.7.0 sctl
0/0/1/1 c720
0/0/1/1.7 tgt
0/0/1/1.7.0 sctl
0/0/1/1.15 tgt
0/0/1/1.15.0 sdisk
0/0/2/0 c720
0/0/2/0.7 tgt
0/0/2/0.7.0 sctl
0/0/2/1 c720
0/0/2/1.7 tgt
0/0/2/1.7.0 sctl
0/0/2/1.15 tgt
0/0/2/1.15.0 sdisk
0/0/4/0 func0
0/0/4/1 asio0
0/2 lba
0/4 lba
0/4/0/0 c8xx
c8xx BUS: 4 SCSI C1010 Ultra160 Wide LVD assigned CPU: -1
0/4/0/0.7 tgt
0/4/0/0.7.0 sctl
0/4/0/0.8 tgt
0/4/0/0.8.0 sdisk
0/4/0/0.10 tgt
0/4/0/0.10.0 sdisk
0/4/0/0.12 tgt
0/4/0/0.12.0 sdisk
0/4/0/0.14 tgt
0/4/0/0.14.0 sdisk
0/6 lba
8 memory
160 processor
btlan3: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 0/0/0/0....

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
Entering cifs_init...
Initialization finished successfully... slot is 8
Logical volume 64, 0x3 configured as ROOT
Logical volume 64, 0xa configured as SWAP
WARNING: Logical volume for Dump expected but not found.
Swap device table: (start & size given in 512-byte blocks)
entry 0 - major is 64, minor is 0xa; start = 0, size = 8388608
Dump device table: (start & size given in 1-Kbyte blocks)
entry 0 - major is 31, minor is 0x1f000; start = 9882464, size = 4194304
Starting the STREAMS daemons-phase 1
Create STCP device files
B2352B/9245XB HP-UX (B.11.00) #1: Wed Nov 5 22:38:19 PST 1997

Memory Information:
physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size = 4096 bytes
Physical: 1048576 Kbytes, lockable: 716980 Kbytes, available: 833740 Kbytes

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,

One of your I/O card is in problem or failed.
Use cstm to locate the same.
CSTM guide attached.

See thouroughly the "ioscan" output.
Regards,

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
for a previous problem please look at:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=621363
Regards

[chaabaoui]

First of all, thank very much for help.

If you wish to view my "ioscan" output, open "ioscan.txt"

Regards

[Michal Zochowski_1]

1. you have no set up DUMP in Boot Definitions. Check this using "lvlnboot -v"
2. dmesg output doesn't show any failures.
3. First message which you attached only shows, that something may be wrong on PDC level, but it not have to be. Check your Firmware and Diagnostics version.
4. ioscan which you attached doesn't show anything, try " ioscan -fn " and take a look on S/W State for each device. should be CLAIMED.
5. Check your syslog, if there is no any strange entries. this is not critical.
6. If you affraid that something could be happened open Hardware call in HP vendor.

regards,

Michael

[chaabaoui]

Thanks Michael,

Would you check my "ioscan" listing?
it doesn't show any warning.

All S/W State are CLAIMED.

Regards

[chaabaoui]

I think there's no DUMP. You're right !!!

# lvlnboot -v
Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
/dev/dsk/c1t15d0 (0/0/1/1.15.0) -- Boot Disk
Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c1t15d0
Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c1t15d0
Swap: lvol0 on: /dev/dsk/c1t15d0
No Dump Logical Volume configured

[chaabaoui]

Concerning my "syslog", there's some WARNINGs

like,
Mar 29 18:12:03 MYSERVER vmunix: WARNING: Logical volume for Dump expected but not found.

[Michal Zochowski_1]

my suggestion is:

lvlnboot -d /dev/vg00/lvol0

it set up DUMP to the same lvol as SWAP.
This is often configuration for DUMP.
If you need set up any other configuration
for this, first read manual lvlnboot(1M).

Michael