do I need to recreate part of LIF area?

[Paul Senior_1]

I have an L2000 server which I use as a test server. It's on hpux 11iv1
It boots fine to the primary boot path, but will not boot from a dvd disk, either in the internal dvd drive (within L2000 chassis) or an internal dvd drive within an enclosure.
Both lead to error "IPL error: bad LIF magic"
I can load applications/patches from these dvd drives when I am in swinstall, so the drives do work, they just won't take o/s bootable code.

do I need to reinstall some of the LIF area (the machine does boot to primary path so it cannot be completely damaged, if at all)?

al2000 / >lvlnboot -v
Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 (0/0/1/1.2.0) -- Boot Disk
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 (0/0/2/0.2.0) --DVD
Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c1t2d0, 0

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Paul,

Could you check the firmware version of your dvd.

# diskinfo -v /dev/rdsk/cxtydz

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/patchDocDisplay.do?patchId=PF_DHDV0001

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Kent Ostby]

Paul --

There are limitations on what devices you can boot from. There are some DVDs you can boot from, but not others.

Did the DVDs come with the box from HP or were they something you added later?

If something you added later, they may not be supported as boot devices.

[Patrick Wallek]

No, any LIF areas on disks would have no effect on booting a DVD.

See Bill Hassell's response in this thread concerning DVD drives:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1003347

[Paul Senior_1]

Thanks for the replies.

I've enclosed diskinfo output in the attatched file

I tried Robert's idea of updating the firmware on the DVD drives - after running the firmware tool once for each drive it told me that the firmware is current for both drives (see attatched file).

I notice both drives have a sector size set to 2048 bytes, whereas patrick's link states this should be 512k.
I had a look at the DVD drive in the enclosure rack to see if there was a jumper to set the sector size - all I could see was the scsi id switch.
Do I have to open the unit up to find the jumper?

[Mohanasundaram_1]

Hi Paul,

What DVD media have you put in the drive?

Why do you want to boot from the DVD when you have a root disk?

If you can state your intentions and results you are trying to achieve by your exercise, then people can help you in a better way.

With regards,
Mohan.

[Torsten.]

I wondering about this, even this is not related to your initial problem:

al2000 / >lvlnboot -v
Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 (0/0/1/1.2.0) -- Boot Disk
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 (0/0/2/0.2.0) --DVD

It's not normal to have the DVD drive belonging to vg00.

Did you try another DVD/CD disk? Perhaps your disk is bad.

[Mohanasundaram_1]

Hi Paul,

Torsten got it right, vg00 showing DVD is strange. Also the attachment sent by you shows c3t2d0 and c0t2d0 as the DVD devices.

The VG00 is showing c2t2d0 as DVD. It will be interesting to see the output of

strings /etc/lvmtab

Also, I guess you were trying to do something about ignite-UX media on the DVD drives?

It will be useful to know what were you trying/attempting to test on this system.

With regards,
Mohan.

[Paul Senior_1]

Top marks to Patrick & Robert!

I opened up the hot pluggable DVD drive and found a 2048/512byte jumper switch in there.
Once I'd set that from 2048 to 512 and restarted the system I could boot off the hpux 11iv2 install disk!

(I should have mentioned that I was trying to upgrade from 11iv1 to 11iv2)

A big thankyou to everybody who contributed - this one's been ongoing for a while.

[Paul Senior_1]

Thanks again.