How to find a bootable disk in PDC

[susee]

Hi all

In our enterprise one of hp NClass 5400 server crashed
the primary boot path is not set in the pdc
Currently the sea command is showing lot of disks
how to find the bootable disk of the the listed one ,


Thanks & Regards

[melvyn burnard]

try using:
sea ipl

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

sea is the ticket & use it thusly:

sea ipl

Now if there's a CD/DVD or tape in their respective drives it may find these as well.
So it's a good idea to know what their HW paths are.

Once you determine the proper disk drive it will have a Px where x=digit on it's line & tou use
bo Px
to start the boot from it.
Once booted use
setboot -p HW_PATH
setboot -a HW_PATH
to set up the boot devices.

HTH,
Jeff

[Raj D.]

Dear Susen,

You can use at PDC :

search ipl

secondly if you have the output of lvlnboot -v , or /etc/lvmtab , you can find it out easily, which one is boot disk.

And while the system is running , to find out from which disk the system booted from , use this command:

# echo boot_string/S|adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem


Goodluck,

Cheers,
Raj.

[Sivakumar TS]

Hi Susee,

run

PDC> SEARCH IPL

this would search for disks whihc has Initial Program Loader.. ie BOOTable DISKs

Regards,

Siva.