Booting problems in Visualize J5000 workstation

[abdul azeem shaik_3]

Hi,
My workstation which is running HP-UX11.11 OS is not booting up. I get the following problem:
INIT:Command is respawning too rapidly. Will try again in 5 mins.
Check for possible errors:
id:ems4 "/etc/opt/resmon/lbin/P-client"
INIT:Command is respawning too rapidly. Will try again in 5 mins.
Check for possible errors:
id:cons "/usr/sbin/getty" console console
It hangs.
I have checked in the /etc/inittab file and commented out the line with P-client. Now I get the getty message still.
getty is not running. There is no recovery CD available. I checked /etc/rc.config.d. Only one file ems got changed recently. Others are old files.
Any help in this pls?
Abdul

[Steven E. Protter]

Have you booted your system since you made the change?

See about getting a generic /etc/inittab from a smilar workstation.

SEP

[abdul azeem shaik_3]

Yes I did reboot several times. I could login in single user mode. I could mount all the file systems. I also see some errors like /sbin/rc whomamI not found
/sbin/rc: awk not found, /sbin/rc : uname not found, /sbin/rc test:argument expected

Looks like before I joined this company, some one installed some patches, since then they have booting problems

[Steven E. Protter]

Options:

Reinstall the operating system. Patch carefully with the June 2004 set and patch assesement from patches link at itrc.hp.com

I highly recommend this.

This system has been abused and probably has issues you simply don't want to deal with.

swverify \* and deal with errors individually.

SEP

[abdul azeem shaik_3]

Unfortunately they donot have a CD for reinstall. They donot have mirror even. When I run setboot I see:
Primary bootpath:10/0/15/1.6.0
Alt bootpath:10/0/15/0.6.0
Can I boot with BOot ALT command?
Or they have a spare disk which contains good OS. Can I boot from that disk?
Abdul