Help decode console messages

[dictum9]

This is a RX2620 running 11.23

It wasn't pingable, so I loged in via the console. Everything seemed fine including the routing table, except I could ping out but couldn't ping in.

I decided the simplest thing to do is to bounce it. When I still couldn't ping it 30 mins after that, I knew something was clearly wrong. I looked at the console and saw this message scrolling by fast, along with some control characters and garbage.

HP-UX Primary Boot 0/1/1/0.1.0

Also Control-B is not responding to do the reset.

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[spex · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Something may be wrong with your bootdisk.

PCS

[Pete Randall]

It sounds like you never finished booting and it's in some sort of loop. Try powering off/on, then interrupt the boot process and try to boot with the previous kernel (/stand/vmunix.prev).


Pete

[NMory]

Do you have a mirror of your boot disk?
Try booting with the alternate boot disk. Could be something wrong with the primary.

LN

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

There is definitely a problem with the boot disk. If you have mirror/ux configured with an alternate boot disk, now is the time to try and boot off it.

You can boot off any disk at the ISL prompt with the BO P# comand

To see alternate boot paths, use the sea command at the ISL prompt.

Since this itanium, there is probably a little menu system, but you can still work through it and boot off the alternate disk if you configured this.

SEP

[dictum9]

Right now control-b is not responding.

I will powercycle it and pause it in the 10 second window.

[Pete Randall]

I also like the alternate boot disk idea if your previous kernel doesn't work. Is the boot disk mirrored?


Pete

[dictum9]

Yes, the disks are mirrored.

[dictum9]

EFI Launching boot manager
SCSI (Pun0,Lun0, HP 73.4....
..........

Loading Device Drivers

EFI boot manager ver 1.10
Firmware ver 2.32

Please select a boot option
HP-UX Primary boot: 0/1/1/0.1.0

New Boot Entry
Primary boot
second new entry
CDROM


Right at this point it goes crazy and into the infinite loop where it keeps saying HP-UX Primary boot: 0/1/1/0.1.0

I do not get to the point where it's asking if you have 10 seconds to pause it. Sounds like a hardware problem?

[spex]

Hi,

I would place a call to HP support. My guess is you'll have to:

1) Pull the boot disk (with the power off).
2) Boot into single-user mode from your HP-UX Installation DVD.
3) Change your primary boot path to your mirrored drive via '/usr/sbin/setboot -p '.
4) Change the pv in '/stand/bootconf'.
5) Reboot.
6) Replace bad disk.
7) Restore mirroring.
8) Add alternate boot path via 'setboot' and swap primary and alternate. Add alternate to '/stand/bootconf'.

I've never been through this scenario, so I'm just making an educated guess. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

PCS

[dictum9]

Thanks, I will try it.