Booting from EVA5K failed after Secure Path have been installed

[Igor Sovin]

Hi guys!
I have trouble with booting my SuperDome Partition 0 running 11iv2.
We decided to make boot OS disk on EVA5K, because we dont have local disks in IO chassis.
I've configured, zoning, lun presentation etc..
Then I've installed HP-UX 11iv2 on SAN disk that i presented from EVA.
Everything was okay, until I began to install Secure Path 3.0F.
System rebooted after successful installation of Secure Path and then Primary Boot Path and Alternate Boot Path failed.
Now I cant boot my system.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

First mistake was making a boot disk on the EVA. Even though supported, you are screwed in such a situation.

Boot with the DVD of the Core OS and convert back to a locally booting system.

Its rough here, because you need access to a disk that is hidden from you due to a secure path defect from your boot disk. I'm guessing you need to reinstall the OS to local disk, and try and connect to EVA after that. At least there of Secure Path messes you up, you can boot and swremove.

SEP

[Igor Sovin]

Hi Steven!

So its impossible to have boot disk from EVA and Secure Path installed on it?

[Duncan Edmonstone]

No of course its not... but there's a lot of disagreement on these forums over whether boot from SAN makes sense - some take it to extremes my making out like it doesn't work at all. It does and this is a supported configuration.

Lets get some more info from you.

What version of code is running on the EVA5K? ARe you still on VCS 3.x or are you now up to VCS4.x?

Can you boot off a DVD and give us an output of ioscan -fn and setboot?

HTH

Duncan

[Igor Sovin]

We are still on VCS 3.028

Unfortunately, now I dont have DVD drive connected and there are no local disks in chassis.
We moved SCSI adapters, connected to storage with DVD drive ant tape, to the second IO chassis.
I have nothing except LAN cards.
In EFI I can see my boot LUN from EVA as block device:
Shell> map -r
Device mapping table
blk0 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,202)/Pci(1|0)/Fibre(WWN50001FE150028BA9,Lun4001000000000000)
blk1 : Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,202)/Pci(1|1)/Fibre(WWN50001FE150028BA8,Lun4001000000000000)

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Oh dear...

Well if you don't have an Ignite Server on the LAN you can boot of, you'd better get that DVD drive back or your not going very far.

One thing you can try is to get the FC cards to re-enumaerate their boot LUNs - this can be accomplished from EFI.

I'd dig out the document, but I have to go out to a meeting now - can you let me know the sort of FC cards you have installed (part number) and I'll try and post something later...

HTH

Duncan

[Igor Sovin]

HP PCI-X 2Port 4Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (driver 1.09, firmware 4.00.090)

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Igor,

OK thats probably a AB379B card - follow the instructions given by kris rombauts in his post here:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1140093

This is talking about VMS on Integrity, but is equally true for HP-UX on Integrity.

If this doesn't sort you out, better go find that DVD drive.

HTH

Duncan

[Igor Sovin]

Oh yesss!
It works! I cant believe it :-)
The issue was in drvcfg at EFI.


Thanks a lot guys, and especially you Duncan!

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Igor - glad to hear you're sorted - if I recall correctly, after you've booted from both your primary and alternate boot paths successfully, you can set the EFIFCScanLevel value back to 0, which speeds up boot time (but I might be thinking of another card...) - if you get time to try, let us all know.

HTH

Duncan