Booting Error

[Saifudheen_1]

Hi,
I have problem with HP-UX A.37.00 B 9000/835 installed on hp server 8000, while booting the system showing the following mesg.

Boot
:dsc2(4.0.0;oxb)/hp-ux
open failure: not a directory (ENOTDIR) (error= =20)
ISL>

then system will not boot.

pls give the solutions
tanks
saifu

[V.Tamilvanan]

Hi,

What is the version of your HPUX?

Try the below
If it is HP-UX 9.x:

ISL> hpux /hp-ux

HP-UX 10.x and above:

ISL> hpux /stand/vmunix

[KapilRaj]

It seems ISL is not able to read the kernel u may try booting from an alternate kernel

I am not sure what is the previous kernel name in 9.X

in 10.X it is vmunix.prev

Regds,

Kaps

[Saifudheen_1]

Hi,
I tried with hpux/hp-ux, but it wount boot.
also i have tried this way ISL>hpux then it will try and it will show the following.

:disc2(4.0.0;0x0)hp-ux
bag magic

then ISL> prompt will display

pls give me some soultion.

regards,
saifu

[Bharat Katkar]

I think either the disk u are trying to boot is not your boot disk or It's boot area (LIF) got corrupted.
1. Confirm which is your boot device first
you can give "search" command at PDC prompt to see the potential boot devices and select the correct one.
2. If LIF is corrupted then go thr'
man mkboot
( You need to install LIF area again )

[Saifudheen_1]

Hi,
Its booting from primary path which 4.0.0.etc. but its failing..how i can install lif again.pls explain.

thank u
saifu

[Saifudheen_1]

Hi,
How it install LIF area again. pls explain

thanks
saifu

[melvyn burnard]

sounds as though you may have lost your kernel file, /hp-ux, and this implies this is an old, unsupported release of HP-UX.

Yopu might like to try doing:
hpux ls *
and see if this gives you a listing of files at the / mount point.
you could also try to boot from the pre-10.x backup kernel:
hpux /SYSBCKUP

Do you know whsat version of HP-UX you have on hte system?

[Saifudheen_1]

Hi,
I hope my system version is HP-UX A.37.00 B 9000/835 when i check uname -a its showing the above name.

thanks
saifu

[melvyn burnard]

There was no HP-UX version of what you are listing.
I suspect you have either version 3.x or 7.x of HP-UX.
Whichever, it is VERY old.
You may be in a state where you will need to re-install, and for this you will need the OS media, manuals, etc. and a good full backup.

[Saifudheen_1]

Hi,
Yes I beleive my system is hpux 7. really i don't have the mannual for this but i have the good backup, so please explain to me which file i should restore from backup. the complete root file or only the bootconf for kernal?

pls provide me some soultions

thanks
saifu