recovering from make recovery tape

[Nwabisa Mtila]

i'm trying to recover from tape and i reply No when asked to interact with ipl,but it still tries to boot and takes me back to that prompt.how can i go out of that prompt for the boot to proceed.(i'v already booted from tape to try and recover)


Pls help

[Steve Hamilton_2]

If memory serves me correctly, you should also be seeing an error message when attempting to boot from the tape - what is that error message?

Also, what happens if you answer "Y" to the "Interact w/ IPL?" question - do you get to an ISL> prompt?

Steve Hamilton

[lawrenzo]

Not sure on the procedure you are doing but once you have typed;

> sea ipl

then displayed is something like;

p0 0/0/1/0.1 extscsi.1 Sequential access media

p1 0/0/1/0.1 extscsi.1 Random access media

you need to boot from sequential therefor;

>boot p0
Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?>N

you should then see

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1

HARD Booted.

ISL booting hpux (;0):INSTALL

Boot
: tape(0/0/1/0.2.0.0.0.0.0;0):WINSTALL

............................................

If this is not displayed then have you another ignite tape?

appologies if you already have done this.

HTH

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

If you get message like this PRESS X TO DIABLE NOTIFY YOU AGAIN

0xF8E000301100EFFF 00000000 0000EFFF - type 31 = legacy PA HEX chassis-code
0x58E008301100EFFF 00006900 0A021B26 - type 11 = Timestamp 01/10/2005 02:27:38
A: ack read of this entry - X: Disable all future alert messages
Anything else skip redisplay the log entry
->Choice:a
*****************************************
IF YOU ARE IN IPL, TYPE
IPL>hpux
Without any options or arguments, the HP-UX utility loads /stand/vmunix and boots the
system to multiuser mode. This is the default behavior during an unattended boot.

[vofsky]

Hi Nwabisa,
I agree with Steve's idea.Unless you type "y" or seeing some error messages ,the system will not show the prompt.If there are some errors message composed mostly of "0",it indicates the corrupt tape or tape driver.

[Nwabisa Mtila]

Thanks guys for the replies.i think i forgot to mention that this prompt is the ISL> prompt, and when i type hpux /stand/vmunix or hpux without arguments it still takes me back to the prompt.and the same thing happened when i replied Y.

[Garry Ferguson]

My reference instructions for recovery ....

The make_recovery command is part of Ignite. (Ignite can be downloaded from HP.)
To create a make_recovery tape then connect an HP tape drive and make sure the system can see it.
Use SAM. If not "visible" SAM will guide you through how to make it visible!
"make_recovery -A" - to create your tape. It will include everything in volume group 0.
To restore from the tape:
Interrupt the boot process when prompt allows.
"sea ipl" - to search for possible boot devices
If "sequential access media" shows as P1 then
"boot P1"
Interact with IPL(Y,N, or Cancel)?> "n"
For totally non-interactive restore just leave it now.
If something might need reconfiguring then interrupt the process when prompted and the Ignite-UX installation interface will come up.

Garry