rp2470 ignite restore problem

[Henry Fauni]

Another possibility could be a bad disk. Ignite may not complain when it makes the disk bootable, but the lif area on the disk maybe bad. Can you try another disk? How about using the other disk at H/W path 0/0/2/1.15.0?

[Mikikiki]

Hi Henry,

I was unable to find another disk to check if it will help. However I did several tests which convince me that both discs are working. I install fresh copy of hp ux and extended my vg00 on both discs, after that I change the positions of the discs and again installed fresh copy and again extended vg00 without problems which told me that both discs are working fine.

However when tried to do ignite recovery when discs were with changed positions again only ISL> prompt.

Is there possibility that mirroring on the production server to make troubles?  is there another way of cloning servers other then make_tape_recovery?

I played so long with this with no success.

Br,

[Torsten.]

Can you tell the ignite version used? Since this is old (HP-UX 11.00) you maybe have a known bad version?

[Mikikiki]

Hi Torsten,

This is the version of ignite shown in the output of swlist:

B5725AA                               B.5.1.33       HP-UX Installation Utilities (Ignite-UX)

and this is from the ignite log:

@(#) Ignite-UX Revision B.5.1.33

Best regards,

[Torsten.]

Did you see these threads?

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Ignite-UX/Ignite-stops-a-ISL-prompt/td-p/4885863

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/cloned-system-doesn-t-boot/td-p/3243304

Maybe there was a problem with this version, but it is probably too long ago to tell ... 11.00 is out of support for almost 6 years now (IIRC)?

[Mikikiki]

Hi Torsten,

I saw those threads you told me and problem was exact like mine. As I could see this was the solution:

"The problem is solved after the following actions

1) install latest hpux11.00 patch bundle (March 2004)
2) Install Ignite C.6.1.44, I had to download the full bundle ,not only the HPUX 11.00 version"

I could not find links to download both patch and Ignite C.6.1.44. can you help me with this?

Is this Ignite C.6.1.44 supported for hp ux 11.00?

Br,

[Dennis Handly]

>I could not find links to download both patch and Ignite C.6.1.44.
>Is this Ignite C.6.1.44 supported for HP-UX 11.00?

As Torsten said, 11.00 is out of support and all this stuff was removed years ago.

[Mikikiki]

Hi Dennis,

Does this mean that I am stacked here with no further possibilities?

Br,

[Dennis Handly]

>Does this mean that I am stacked here with no further possibilities?

Yes you are hosed.

Unless someone else has a copy of that old Ignite.  (I've seen topics with similar requests.)

Or HP is willing to take your money to get these to you.

[Torsten.]

Maybe you have some other old application CD sets with a newer version of ignite?

If not, there are a couple of options to "clone" your productive server. Search the board for Clay's "lifeboat" setup (in fact a "dd" of the productive boot disk) or take out a mirrored drive while the server is down. You will have a perfect "clone" then, so don't forget to adjust at least the hostname and the IP address.

For example see http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/Copying-the-boot-disk/m-p/2611549#M36256