hp c110 boot problem

[NghiemLuu]

Hi experts,

I am new to unix, please help me booting my machine. It was working fine until I moved it. This is the message I got on the screen:

Booting...
Boot IO dependent code (IODC) revision 0

HARD booted.
ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994
ISL Booting Hp-Ux
Reseting boot Device...
Error returned from boot device driver.
STATUS returned from drivers = -13
INFORMATION returned from driver:
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00004001 00000028 C1000040 0A8000C0
070610D8 0000A302 0081F004 00000800
29017A00 00D14600 0000CF14 00000000
FFFFFFFD 00000001 00000000 00000000

Boot device error: reading utility into memory.
Auto-execute file is inconsistent. Autoboot aborted.

ISL>

Would somebody please help!!!

Thank you all,
Luu

[JACQUET]

Hi,

Did you do just a reboot of your machine ?
In that case, it means that the Boot Area seems to have disappeared !
The Disk Drive containing the OS could be dead.
What i could advice is to try to begin a reinstall, and when you arrive at the screen defining the slicing of you disk, the program should show you the visible disk you can install the OS. If your boot disk doesn't appear, your disk is really dead. Otherwise, it is a software problem, and i'm afraid you'll have to reinstall it or restore it from a make-recovery tape.

PJA.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi NghiemLuu,
I don't know what is error number -13. Looks like it is disk problem. May be disk is not starting up or not spinning or head is not moving.
Try to bring system up on single user mode
ISL> hpux -isl
If that does not work
boot>bo /stand/vmunix.prev
If that doesn?t work.
Open the box unhook the disk shake the disk slowly and hook it up it might work.

Sachin

[John Bolene]

Most hard drives do not fail while working, they fail on powerup, which sounds like what has happened here.

If you have maintenance with HP, call it in and have them look at it.

Hopefully you had a backup?

We normally do backups when somethng changes on the machine, which is not very often. But we ALWAYS do a backup before the machine is to be powered down and have had more than a few machines with drive failures on power up.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi NghiemLuu

The better way to know whether the disk is bad or the OS is corrupt is do a SEA IPL at the ISL prompt it should give you the bootable disk devices. Also you can try booting in single user mode in case you get the root disk which is boottable by the sea ipl option.

Most likely if the root disk is crashed it will not show up in SEA IPL or SEA command.


Manoj Srivastava

[John McAloon]

Did you vrify the basics, like are the external drives cabled correctly and powered up?