Failed to boot after 11i V2 upgrade

[John Huck]

I just finished the upgrade-ux process going from 11i V1 to V2 (or so I thought). Everything seemed to go fine, after about 3 hours the installer rebuilt the kernel and then tried to reboot the system. When it got to the MON prompt, I got this error:

[MON] Booting Partition1...
Kernel file is not relocatable for Partition1
File address is 0x0000000000020000 and memory address is 0x0000000004000000
Error reading program segments
Failed to load (0/0/1/1.2.0;)/stand/vmunix
[MON] Partition1 has halted.
MON>

Thanks for any help you can give me.

JH

[Sameer_Nirmal]

It seems that kernel doesn't have Vpar included or improperly included.

Try booting the system without loading vpmon.

ISL > hpux /stand/vmunix

Then check if Vpar is included in the kernel
# what /stand/vmunix | grep vpar

Under which environment did you try the upgrade using Update-UX?

[Raj D.]

John,

Try to check the ipl on this path 0/0/1/1.2.0. If its ok , try to boot from ISL> hpux /stand/vmunix

if it booted , check the the vpar has been configured properly ,if not add the boot option by vparmodify command from the other running vpar.

(Also check your boot disk is mirroed properly if it was mirroed.)

Cheers,
Raj.

[John Huck]

Thanks for your responses. Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm new to HPUX vpar's... How to I get to the ISL prompt from the MON or GSL prompt?

Thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

From GSL type in 'bo pri' (boot from primary path) or 'bo alt' (boot from alternate path).

When asked 'Interact with ISL (Y/N)?' answer 'Y'.

You should then be at the ISL prompt. From there you can try the suggestions above.

[Torsten.]

Hi,

the message indicates that vPar software is not integrated into the kernel. You need to start the system without the vPars environment like mentioned above:

ISL > hpux /stand/vmunix

and upgrade the vPar software from version 3.xx to 4.03.

[John Huck]

Thanks all for your help.