hpux 9.10 o/s currupted

[avizen9]

Hello friends
i am having coupld of hpux 9.10, one of my hpux 9.10 machine showing below error.. looks Os currupted can not boot up

"INIT:Command is respawning too repidly.
will try again in 5 mins
check for possible errors
id: vue /etc/vuerc"

#VUE validation and inocation"

hostname
Console Login :
"


i had done fack
tried to open /etc/vuerc file but cant open even ls command also not work.

not sure how to recove OS for this machine,

any body having experience work with hpux 9.10 appriciate your help here.

thanks in advance,

[Frank de Vries]

What lines do you have in your /etc/inittab
for init:

init:3:initdefault:

Can you boot to single user mode from
sl prompt: init 0

and if you get into single user mode disable
the VUE stuff (remove link from ../init.d/)

[avizen9]

i dont think it having /etc/iniittab
i tried to cd /etc/iniittab can not go through

[Torsten.]

>> cd /etc/iniittab

It's not a directory, it's a file

# cat /etc/inittab

[Frank de Vries]

Thanks Thorston,

Sorry I didn't realize you thought it would
be a directory. Even so, always check with
ls -ls /etc/inittab,
that will reveal if it is a directory or not.
Don't assume anything in unix !!

The inittab is the file that the kernel uses during booting and first initialization

an example of contents of a inittab file see attached:

Hope it gives you more clues ...

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

>>i dont think it having /etc/iniittab
As I know every unix (different types of unix like HP, Solaris, Linux ) is having /etc/inittab
>>i tried to cd /etc/iniittab can not go through
its a file not a directory
you can cat or vi the /etc/inittab file.

Suraj

[john korterman]

Hi,

can you check that the root shell is /sbin/sh ?

regards,
John K.

[avizen9]

I had commented VUE line from /etc/inittab and rebooted

error msg still reamin same, now i even can not get login prompt which i used get prviously ..

at present i am struguling to boot in single user mode, its very different enviroment in hpux 9, let me boot in single user mode and un-comment that VUE line in /etc/iniittab file so at least i can login and do troubleshooting for further.

appriciate all other suggesions. thanks,

i have not assign much points as answers are not really close for my issue.

[Dennis Handly]

>it's very different environment in hp-ux 9

It's also very different since 9.10 isn't PA-RISC but Motorola.

I don't know if a SVR4 filesystem layout will let you map the new layout to the old?
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=668204
http://docs.hp.com/en/5963-8942/
This has a table of equivalents:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5964-5283/ch04s05.html

[avizen9]

Since I had installation media (CD) I decided to re-image this unix box, after installation it rebooted by it self, and stuck here with few error, attached in snapshot, any body any idea, please just donâ t guess, reply if you are really sure,

Thanks,

[Torsten.]

No swap configured - this is probably the reason.

[F Verschuren]

It does not look like a speciak 9.00 problem... but a hartware problem.

The first write I/O fails, normaly this is caused by broken hartware, disk ore termination problems.