Cold Installing HP-UX 11i

[Alexander Laing]

I am trying to install HP-UX 11 on an HP9000 L-Class server. It already has HP-UX installed on it. It is used for testing/development.

I am using the install CD. I interrupt the boot process and choose to boot from the CD.

The system goes through the procedures for booting from the Install CD, but then rather than presenting me with the Main menu where I choose to "Install HP-UX" or "Run a Recovery Shell" it automatically asks me if I want to setup networking.

I choose "NO" and then it goes to the "HP-UX CORE MEDIA SYSTEM RECOVERY" menu.

What is happening? Am I doing something wrong?

[Sundar_7]

hmm..have never seen such a thing. Can only take a wild guess here. Try setting the primary boot path to CD itself and try booting from CD now.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

Like Sundar, I've never seen it do this own it's own. It's more likely that you may have inadvertently hit the enter key during the boot process & it was buffered & presented to the installer. That or possibly a bad keyboard or terminal emulation that's sending out double enters or padding keys with enter.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Steven Bucek]

I do cold installs often and have not seen this error either, guess your the lucky one ;). Since this is just a test box, I would reset the GSP to defaults, pull the drives and makinit them in another system, and try again with your 11i disk one.

[Gerhard Roets]

Hi

You should do the following ...
"bo alt install"
and then you should not interact with the ipl.
This should cure the problem. I am not to sure hom many entry points there are on the cold load CD.

Regards
Gerhard

[Alexander Laing]

Thanks Everyone for your comments!

I found what the problem was.

My server does not have a graphics adapter so I connect through the serial port.

I was using Hyperterminal on Windows XP Pro from my laptop.
For some reason each time it reach that menu it always added a character causing the system to choose "Run a Recovery Shell".

After realising this I search on the internet for a replacement and a free product called "Tera Term Pro" at http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html It work quite fine without any problems.

I think I'm going to use it for all my Terminal needs.

Once again thanks very much!