ENTRY_INIT Error Status -3

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Hello everyone,

I have a mirrored root drive that I replaced. It happened to be the primary boot drive. After replacing it and resyncing the VG I rebooted the system to make sure that my boot information was correct. Booting off of the primary path worked just fine. When I tried to boot off of my ALT path I found that my ALT path was set the same as my PRI path. I change the ALT path to what it was suppose to be and now when I try to boot off the ALT path I get the following error.

IODC ENTRY_INIT failed. Error Status: -3

Any ideas as to what I screwed up?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Tim

[Sandman!]

Probable cause is hardware. Either the alt boot disk or the SCSI cable is bad or it is not terminated properly. Boot the machine off of the primary disk and do low level tests with dd(1) on the alt boot disk to make sure it's good. Look at ioscan report and see if the state of that disk shows NO_HW.

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Thanks for the reply Sandman,

I have been doing some more digging and here is the error when I try to do a search for bootable devices.

Main Menu: Enter command or menu > SEA ALL

Searching for potential boot device(s)
This may take several minutes.

To discontinue search, press any key (termination may not be immediate).


IODC
Path# Device Path (dec) Device Type Rev
----- ----------------- ----------- ----

ERROR: PDH NVRAM and I/O card NVRAM SCSI parameters
do not match for path 0/0/0/3/0
Search aborted. The SCSI parameters for this card
must be corrected from the BCH Service menu.

Main Menu: Enter command or menu >

A normal search with out the "all" option gives me a normal output excluding this particular drive. I am pretty sure that the drive is good, other wise how would my mirrors sync up when I did the "vgsync /dev/vg00"?

I am booting off the primary and I will try a dd test to see if something show up.

Tim

[Timothy P. Jackson]

I checked the ioscan and it is "CLAIMED", I also did the dd and ran it for about 2 minutes and it came back with no problems.

[Bill Hassell]

When you added the second disk, did you use pvcreate -b so the second disk has room for the boot area? Did you run mkboot twice, once for the boot utilities and once to set the boot string? The attached script reports on the boot area.

[Sandman!]

Are you sure it is a mirrored boot drive. Could you please post the output of...

# lvlnboot -v

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Hi Bill and Sandman,

Attached is the output from your script, Bill. Here are the steps that I took to replace the bad mirrored drive.

1)pvchange -a N /dev/dsk/c0t6d0
2)replaced the physical disk
3)vgcfgresotre -n vg00 /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0
4)vgchange -a y vg00
5)mkboot -l /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0
6)mkboot /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0
7)mkboot -a "hpux -lq" /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0
8)lvlnboot -R
9)vgsync /dev/vg00

[Sandman!]

The steps look good. Make sure to mount /usr between steps 4) and 5) and after recovering vg00 reboot the machine instead of transitioning to run level 3.