HP-UX B.11.00

[Henry Brown]

my system crashed today and I can't find any of the system disks. It corrupt my boot sector on the start up disk and the CPU went bad. I replaced the CPU unit on the board and now I am back up to the System prompt and can' go any futher because I can't find the disk to reloard. I do have backup tapes that was backedup while it was on line. If you can help me please E-mail me At henry2727@aol.com or post it on this board. Thank you

[RAC_1]

On PDC prompt, can you do sea ipl and get diks through which you can boot??

If not put in ignite tape and boot through it. Once booted the installation procedure is self explainatory.

Anil

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi there,
if you are getting PDC prompt, then try searching for bootable devices.

Main Menu> sea

Now try locating your disk from this looking at H/W path. Now suppose if it is P1 then,

Main menu> bo P1
Interact with IPL> no

Now here if it says unable to read LIF area or something like that then using ignite backup will be an good option if you have it or then reinstalling the OS and doing data backup if you have any.

If it is unable to detect your disk itself in "sea" then you need to troubleshoot for any H/w problem.

Hope that helps.
Regards,

[Todd McDaniel_1]

Check your power going to the disks... Do you see lights on the disks?

[Dave Unverhau_1]

Henry,

Perhaps you could give us a little more info on your system config:

What kind of HP-UX system is this? (model #)

What kind of disks are you trying to boot from? (external stand-alone, HASS box, internal...FWD, SE SCSI?)

What kind of errors do you see when trying to boot? (bad LIF magic, timeout)

What kind of tape backup do you have?(fbackup, tar, make_recovery/make_tape_recovery)

What kind of tape drive? (DDS, QIC, DLT)

What are the paths to your boot disk and tape drive?

With this info, we stand a better chance of helping you to recover.

Best Regards,

Dave

[Stanislaw Matras]

Exactly. Very good notice :-)