HP-UX 11iv2 Unable to reboot properly

[MCarter63]

I have an HP Integrity rx2620 that when I shut it down and rebooted it goes through this cycle where it will come up to the HP splash screen then it will go black and then to a gray screen with a black x (mouse pointer) and will stay like that for 5 minutes or more and than will go back to a black screen and then back to the HP splash screen and again back to the gray screen producing a never ending cycle.

Any suggestions??

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Could you remote login to the system and post the errors from the /var/dt/Xerrors file?

Robert-Jan

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I had an rx3660 server do that to me this morning.

Right after the EFI prompt that lets you go to the EFI shell, hit a key.

There is a countdown warning and you need to hit a key to stop this.

hpux -is

This will permit you to boot to single user mode.

Now
mount /usr
mount /tmp
use fsck -F vxfs -o full -y
to deal with mount errors.


Now you can run vi.

vi /etc/initttab

Change the default run level to 2.

Now your system will boot

You will now at least be able to see and correct the X server errors.

Note that by default at install /etc/rc.config.d/xfs does not turn on the font server on server installs.

SEP

[MCarter63]

This is my first Unix server that I have ever worked on so I really am not that familiar with it.

At this point I am unable to do anything as it remains in this constant loop.

=(

[Ignacio Javier]

Hi:

When you see a blue screen leting you choose the boot disk,hit a key. Choose the disk you want.
Then the EFI pronts apears ( black screen ):

Loading.: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/1/1/0.1.0
Starting: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/1/1/0.1.0

(C) Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.025

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot


Hit a key and then boot like is said in the previous mesages.
boot vmunix -is

I hope it helps

[MCarter63]

It doesn't even bring up a blue screen! =(

When I power up the server it shows a black screen with a blinking cursor for a few minutes then will show the HP splash screen and then will show what looks to be a desktop that is all gray and the cursor is a black "X" It will stay like this for about 5 minutes before the server reboots itself and does the same thing over and over.

Do I need a laptop to connect to it and try connecting via the serial port to get to the prompt?