booting HP-UX: what is next after bcheckrc

[CAS_2]

Hi.

My HP-UX box cannot boot.

It boots from disk, loads the kernel, shows the "memory info", runs "ioinitrc", "krs_sysinit" and "bcheckrc".

It hangs after bcheckrc: The last message displayed is:

/sbin/bcheckrc:
Checking for LVM volume groups and Activating (if any exist)
Volume group "/dev/vg00" has been successfully changed.

I forced to reboot in single user mode and changed "/etc/lvmrc" in order to prevent the activation of VGs other than vg00 (I thought they were the reason of hanging, because from single-user mode, "vgchange -a y" hung).

But even preventing this, system hangs. I suspect it hangs in the next step after bcheckrc script but I cannot remember what is that next step.
Is init/rc ? -- I cannot reboot other box to check this.

[Alex Lavrov.]

I had this problem once and it was a faulty disk in 2300 storage. After the disk was replaced, it booted OK.

What storage is connected to your box?

Alex.

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

The next step after bcheckrc is to run /sbin/rc to bring the system up to default run level. You might want to look for backup files in your /sbin/rc area: things like *conf.bak end up getting parsed along with everything else and can cause confusion at the very least.


Pete

[Juan M Leon]

I will suggest to boot the system on single user mode from the CD and run a full fsck on each disk. if you have a mirror you can always boot from the good mirror.

Hope it helps

[Rajesh SB]

Hi,

If you are looking for boot information in detail refer this notes.

Regards,
Rajesh

[Rajesh SB]

Hi,

If you are looking for boot information in detail refer this notes.

Regards,
Rajesh

[CAS_2]

Hi.

Thanks everyone.