HP-UX station don't load...

[Oleg Goudovany]

Hi!
I have next situation: HP-UX station don't load from HDD.
From tape drive - load.
I think what reason in file system - she is full( at this machine - one file system).
How load from HDD - there is some information?
How solver this trouble?

Thanx in advance. Oleg

[Oleg Goudovany]

Forgot - HP-UX 10.20

[John Poff]

Hi Oleg,

What error messages do you see when you try to boot from the HDD?

JP

[S.K. Chan]

What is the error message when you try to boot from the hard disk ? Have you tried booting it up in ..
==> Single user mode ?
ISL> hpux -is
==> LVM maintenance mode ?
ISL> hpux -lm
Please give more error details. Thanks ..

[Oleg Goudovany]

No any messages - begin loading after power on. Next test memory - OK. Next "Press any key to discontinue autoreboot".
Then appear Main Menu. If I connect Tape drive system begin load from him.

Oleg.

[Oleg Goudovany]

No any messages - begin loading after power on. Next test memory - OK. Next "Press any key to discontinue autoreboot".
Then appear Main Menu. If I connect Tape drive system begin load from him.
Help!!!!!!
Oleg.

[S.K. Chan]

It sounds like your primary boot path is pointing to the tape drive instead of the hard disk. You secondary boot path is probably net set to any other disk either. What you can do is at interrupt (by pressing any key) when you see "Press any key to discontinued autoreboot". You'll then get the boot console main menu. At that prompt enter ..

sea

to search for any bootable devices. It should show you something like this ..
Path# DevicePath DeviceType
-----------------------------
P0 SESCSI.2.0 TOSHIBA CD-ROM
P1 FWSCSI.6.0 IBM DDRS-34560W

Choose the hard disk you will be booting up from. In the above example it would be ..

bo p1

Enter "n" when ask whether you want to interact with IPL or not. After the system boots up and if you'rea ble to log into it change your boot path with "setboot" command. For example ..

# setboot -p 2/0/1.6.0

.. sets 2/0/1.6.0 to be the primary boot path. That way when it reboots the next time, you need not tell it when to boot from.