Problem booting HP WS

[Roland Bodenmann_1]

My HP-UX System has crashed and later on started
again trying FSCK the disks. unfortunately the
system has been shutdown before cleaning the errors.

When i try to reboot the machine now it crashes
because it tells there is no swap space available
for writing.

How can i boot the machine to fix this problem ?

Regards Roland

[Yu-hsin Seah_2]

try booting up in maintainence mode. Your boot header could be corrupted. Boot
up the machine, interrupt the boot process, go into ISL and type "hpux -lm -is"

This will bring you into single-user maintenance mode. Then do mount -a to see
if you can mount all your filesystems. Don't worry about other vgs except vg00.

If the system tells you that you need to fsck, go ahead and do it.

After the fsck is done, do lvlnboot -v to see what the boot header is showing.
If it's wrong, then you need to recreate it:

1. lvlnboot -R
2. lvlnboot -s
3. lvlnboot -d
4. lvlnboot -r
5. lvlnboot -b
6. lvlnboot -v to confirm that the boot area is correct

Then try to reboot the machine again. If it still panics during boot, you may
have to contact someone at HP. You may need to do some recovery.

Hope that helps (and that it's not too late!)