Installing HPUX 10.20 .... Bootable Media not available?

[Jenifer Martins]

Hi
I have an old 9000 server that I am using to learn about HPUX installing and setting up. Of course, I hit a problem right away with installation. Please help!!!

I canceled out of autoboot to enter the Main Menu. I selected SEArch to look for boot devices. I of course need the CD rom, but it isn't listed. I checked the ioscan, and the CDrom device isn't even listed.

I need the "CD Rom" to be listed. How do I go about doing this. Can I do it from the Main Menu? It currently shows the 5 internal storage drives, and a DDS tape device. Why does it not see the CD Rom?

Thanks in advance? I am very new at this, so please explain in detail.

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

Which model of the 9000 range is it?
Also, when you power on hte system, do any lights flicker on the CDrom unit itself?
with power on, can you insert/load a CD?
Also, please post teh output you get from the SEArch command, as this may help

[Jenifer Martins]

Hi Melvyn,
I have a HP9000 D-Class server - Model D350.

When I restart the server, the light flickers on the CDrom and I can open and insert a CD and close it. The light again flickers again.

The SEArch shows:
Path # Device Path Device Type
P0 8/4.5 Random access media
P1 8/4.11 Random access media
P2 8/4.10 Random access media
P3 8/4.9 Random access media
P4 8/4.8 Random access media
P5 8/16/6.0 LAN Moduleion menu/cmd

Thanks again.
-Jenifer

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Jenifer,
May be device driver is not installed on your system. you can do it using sam-kernal configuration-drivers

Sachin

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jenifer:

I'd make sure the cables to your CDROM were tightly seated.

...JRF...

[Tim D Fulford]

Jenifer,

From your question I assume you do have a running system, just not on the OS version etc you want. If so then when the machine is up do

ioscan -funCdisk

You should get an output like below

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
======================================================================
disk 0 0/0/1/1.15.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c1t15d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t15d0
disk 2 0/0/2/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 304
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
disk 1 0/0/2/1.15.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST318404LC
/dev/dsk/c3t15d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t15d0

You can see the DVD/CDROM has a hardware path of 0/0/2/0.1.0, you could then match this up you your output from search to boot from.

alternatively at the PDC menu (the one you did SEArch from)
bo

Good luck

Tim

[Jim Turner]

There is no kernel device driver at the boot menu. There is no kernel at the boot menu. With a bootable 10.20 disk in the CD-ROM drive, it should show up with a "sea" or "sea ipl" at the boot menu. If not, I'd start checking the SCSI termination on (I presume) the CD-ROM. Try a different SCSI cable and/or terminator. Try the CD-ROM drive and cable on a different machine to verify proper operation.

All the best,
Jim

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Jenifer:

While you still have an operational system, I would do an ioscan -fn and look for device paths 8/16/5.X.X - 8/16/5 is the built-in SE SCSI. You may have a bad/loose cable; the DAT tape drive is typically on this same bus. If you see no 8/16/5 devices then you have a system board problem.

[Tracey]

jenifer,
On my D210 the CD rom will show up, but it will show up just as "Random Access" media - nothing to indicate it is actually the cd-rom drive. If you can't boot the system to do an ioscan as was previously suggested, you could try boot P1, etc to see if you can find it.

BTW: there is the bootable CD in the drive isn't there?

[melvyn burnard]

This has nothing to do with kernel drivers as we are at the stage were there is NO kernel.
So I would guess you have some sort of connectivity issue as already mentioned.
I would check to make sure you have all the cables on tight and correctly, otherwise there may be a slight possibility the CDrom drive may also be faulty.
As mentioned, if you have a running system, try to check with ioscan, and also insert a cd such as the applications cd and try to mount the drive as a file system.
This will at least prove/disprove the CD is working.

[Jenifer Martins]

After some playing around, I found that on ioscan, the CDrom looks like it is 8/16/5.7 which is labeled as class: ctl and the description is Initiator. When I use that path, the CD starts to light up, however, I get the error:

Cannot find ENTRY_TEST
Failed to initialize
ENTRY_INIT
Status = -7

I did have a working system, but because I have been playing with it, it doesn't boot up anymore... it hangs on NFS Client Subsystem. Therefore, I thought this was a good time to learn how to install because I need to rebuild it anyway to validate it for GMP.

What do you think?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Jennifer:

You can't possibly boot from 8/16/5.7 that is the controller; I suspect that the controller is resetting the bus and that is why you see the CDROM LED blink. The typical hardware path is 8/16/5.2.0 (SCSI ID 2, LUN 0) for the CDROM.
I would check the internal cabling and termination. I suppose it is possible that someone set the CD-ROM's SCSI ID to 7 via jumpers but that would need to be changed. At this point, I'm suspecting a bad drive.

Good hunting, Clay

[melvyn burnard]

You should have seen something like this:ext_bus 3 8/16/5 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in SCSI
target 7 8/16/5.0 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
tape 0 8/16/5.0.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP HP35480A
target 8 8/16/5.2 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 14 8/16/5.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-410
1TA
target 9 8/16/5.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl 3 8/16/5.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator

The address you tried to use is actually the Interface to which the devices are connected.
If you are not seeing th CD ROM unit, I suspect it is time to get the harwdare checked out.
Oh yes, to get past hte bootup hang hold the SHIFT/CTRL/BAckslash keys down at the same time, a few attempts may be needed to get it to break out of the BUSY/WAIT scenario.

[Jenifer Martins]

Thanks for all your help.
I did pull out the CDrom and there is a pin that is missing on the 50-pin SCSI. I just ordered a new CDrom. You may be hearing from me in a week.

Thanks again.
-Jenifer