Rebuilding the kernel

[Chris Bidwell]

I have an HP9000 Server w/ v11.0 on it. When it begins to boot, it locks up to a certain point and I am unable to continue from there. I can break into the boot sequence, but cannot start SAM or do many other things. I'm thinking I may need to rebuild my kernel. If so, could someone please give me the procedures to doing this? I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm still very much a greenhorn in the HPUX field but am learning as I go.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Chris:

If you can boot and some of your startup scripts execute -- as it sounds from your description -- then I'd suspect that you may merely have a problem in a startup script, perhaps one for networking.

What does the checklist on the console show and/or post the output of /etc/rc.log.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi
You may have a corrupted /etc/inittab.
try booting single user:
At isl interract with IPL (Y), enter hpux -is.
Does this work?
what do you see?
If inittab is corrupted, look for lines that hve been added or modified (syntax...)

Hope this helps a little

All the best

Victor

[Chris Bidwell]

Well, I started another boot sequence and on the start up sequence it just locks up when trying to start NFS client subsystem. After a few minutes just goes blank and I'm unable to interact with it from that point.

[Patrick Wallek]

OK. Here's what you need to do:

Once you are to a point where you can log into the system, go to the /etc/rc.config.d directory and look at the nfsconf file.

If you are not using NFS, AUTOFS or AUTOMOUNT, look for the following lines and make sure they all have a value of 0.

NFS_CLIENT=0
NFS_SERVER=0
PCNFS_SERVER=0
AUTOMOUNT=0
AUTOFS=0

NFS is automatically enabled on all machines. If you do not use it, you have to turn it off yourself.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

You can configure nfsconf file to not to start during boot.

The file you need check is /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

Replace 1 with 0 (Zero) infront NFS_CLIENT, NFS_SERVER, AUTOMOUNT and START_MOUNTD
And the reboot once again.

Goodluck,

-USA

[Chris Bidwell]

Okay, I finally found out that I'm locking up when attempting to start the mail daemon. Who could be the primary cause of this? Thanks for your help guys...