IA 11iv2 machine stuck in booting

[amit mehta_2]

Hi,

After rebooting one of my IA 11.23 machine
is not coming up.A similar issue was reported earlier in the post here:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1061267

I've tried booting from /stand/last_install/vmunix,/stand/backup/vmunix ,which didn't worked.

I've tried to get into single and also in maintenance mode but that is also not working(machine gets stuck throwing a similar message: Launching /stand/vmunix
SIZE: Text:30177K + Data:7102K + BSS:5269K = Total:42549K)

HPUX> ll
total 124290
dr-xr-xr-x 8 bin bin 1024 Oct 12 08:42 ./
dr-xr-xr-x 8 bin bin 1024 Oct 12 08:42 ../
drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 1024 Oct 12 07:02 backup/
dr-xr-xr-x 3 bin bin 1024 Oct 11 14:55 boot.sys/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 21 Oct 11 14:50 bootconf
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14 Oct 12 08:42 bootfs@ -> current/bootfs
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Oct 12 07:46 current/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 4896 Oct 12 08:42 ioconfig
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 82 Oct 11 17:26 kernrel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 Oct 12 08:45 krs/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 1024 Oct 11 17:26 last_install/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Oct 11 14:49 lost+found/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7 Oct 12 08:42 nextboot@ -> current
-rw------- 1 root root 12 Oct 12 08:42 rootconf
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 Oct 12 08:42 system@ -> nextboot/system
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 2606 Oct 11 15:04 system.import
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 3687 Oct 12 06:55 system.prev
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 63559672 Oct 11 17:22 vmunix*

HPUX> boot backup/vmunix
> System Memory = 2028 MB
loading section 0
.......................................................................... (complete)
loading section 1
............... (complete)
loading symbol table
loading System Directory (boot.sys) to MFS
....
loading MFSFILES directory (backup/bootfs) to MFS
......................
Launching /stand/backup/vmunix
SIZE: Text:37628K + Data:7449K + BSS:8473K = Total:53551K


What should i do ? lanboot is also not working :(


~amit

[Torsten.]

At this point the kernel should send the output to the console. This console may be different from the EFI console.

Please check the console setting in EFI menu (should have only 1 entry).

Sure it isn't boot? Or are you on the wrong console? Just a guess.

Anything in the error/live logs of the MP?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

punt.

Restore the system with a recent ignite backups.

Before doing that you might want to look for hardware fault, but that would require the hardware diagnostics built into the EFI interface, or HP hardware support.

SEP

[amit mehta_2]

hi Steven,

I'm not a sys admin and hence i've never restored any of my machine from
ignite backup in past,But i would definetely like to know the procedure involved in doing the same.

~amit

[Torsten.]

You should definitely check the console settings and MP logs first.

[Mark Ellzey]

Amit,

Like SEP says, punt.

Restoring from an Ignite tape is simple. Just put the Ignite tape in the tape drive, then reboot. When the console displays "To discontinue, press any key within 10 seconds", hit a key. Then type 'sea' to search for all boot devices. Look for the tape drive. Then type 'boot pX', where X is the number of the device path for the tape. When it prompts for interact with the IPL, type 'no'. That's all there is to it... the OS will be restored. Then just restore your data backups and bob's your uncle, your done.

Regards,
Mark