HP-UX 11i Boot Failure

[Glen R. Bartlett]

I am having the same problem as mentioned on 2 other posts...J5000 will not boot from install media 11i (december 2003). It hangs at WINSTALL.

It will however boot and install the OS from 11i (december 2000). No, this is not a media issue, I'm using a dvd300i drive and have been using it for a long time.

2nd problem I'm having is whenever doing an swinstall which requires kernel rebuilding, the subsequent boot fails just like the OS install attempt as mentioned above. Only code is CC01 (harmless)...This may only be occuring on NEWER patches, I'm not sure yet.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi Glen,

For your first question check this doc. could be your dvd/cd is effected.

http://www.software.hp.com/RELEASES-MEDIA/notices/Final-2_December.2003_media.issue.pdf


Could you give us an example of a patch or software.depot, and if possible could you add info from the /var/adm/sw/swinstall.log.

Kind regards,
Robert-Jan

[Glen R. Bartlett]

The OS disk set is the re-issued "REVISED" set for december 2003.

The patch I tried to install was PHKL_29076 (Optical media). The patch installs fine and appears to rebuild the kernel fine, but as mentioned in the subsequent auto-reboot hangs.

I dont have a sw log file. I'm afraid I lack the patience, and cannot afford the down time so each time its happened, I immediatly perform a re-install of the december 2000 OS (without incident).

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi again,

I can't find information related to your error, but since you are using an "old" CoreOS media, I would advice you to install the latest qualtypack for 11.i v1 (link is below)

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=QUALITYPACK

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Glen R. Bartlett]

(very late entry) The J5000 was replaced with a C3600. Problem left with the box.