Server not booting after ignite install

[Stephen Milner]

Hi

I'm igniting an 11.11 server off an image of another 11.11 server.

The ignite image gets loaded successfully

Downloads the mini system successfully
reports 100%of the archive loaded succesfully

It then reports it's built the kernel completely and tries to reboot.

When going through the start-up sequence i get a number of the following errors:

interpreter "/bin/sh" not found
file link resolves to "/usr/bin/sh"

this seems to cause many of the start-up bits to report as failures

then it reports :

* - Refer to the file /etc/rc.log for more information.



The system is ready.

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id:cons "/usr/sbin/getty console console # system console"

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id: h1 "/sbin/init.d/init.cssd run >/dev/null 2>&1
and just hangs - you can't bring up a console login - nor can you boot into single user mode.

anyone any ideas - I've never had an ignite install fail at this point before.

The target server is ok as I've been enable to test an ignite image from another server image. So I assume it must be some issue with my image but I would have been expecting an error when loading or processing the image not on the final reboot.

[Eric SAUBIGNAC]

Bonsoir Stephen,

First, you could check installation log from /var/opt/ignite/client//install.log on the ignite server.

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interpreter "/bin/sh" not found
file link resolves to "/usr/bin/sh"
---->

May be /usr can't be mounted. LVM issue ? So did you try to boot in maintenance mode, that is without LVM ? Just add option "-lm" to the boot string "hpux /stand/vmunix -is -lm". Once booted, try to activate vg00 and mount FS like /usr. Does it work ? what about /usr/bin/sh ?

Regards

Eric

[Torsten.]

some startup scripts are using "/bin/sh", some /usr/bin/sh.

Your system should have both files (not linked).

Try to boot into single user mode, activate vg00, mount -a and check.

[Stephen Milner]

Install log has some warnings in it :

* Build_Kernel: Begin

* Tuned kernel for large swap space: "maxswapchunks 2048".
* Building a new kernel using the command: "/usr/sbin/mk_kernel -o
/stand/vmunix".
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio ehci.
Ignoring the following line.
ehci
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio side_ba.
Ignoring the following line.
side_ba
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio fcd_fcp.
Ignoring the following line.
fcd_fcp
WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio fcd_vbus.
Ignoring the following line.
fcd_vbus
Generating module: krm...
Compiling /stand/build/conf.c...
Loading the kernel...
Generating kernel symbol table...


* Build_Kernel: Complete



* Boot_From_Client_Disk: Begin

* Rebooting machine as expected.
NOTE: Rebooting system.




We're unable to boot into maintenence mode - the server just panics - which suggests something must be seriously wrong !

[Eric SAUBIGNAC]

Big doubt, not sure, but ... :

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WARNING: No such device, tunable, or cdio ehci.
Ignoring the following line.
ehci
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"ehci" is "USB Enhanced Host Controller Driver". USB bus is Itanium specific, no ?

Don't know if it possible to install a PA-RISC box with an Itanium ignite image, but are you sure that there is no mistake on the image you are downloading to the box you install ? Is it possible that you have downloaded an Itanium image ?

Eric

[Stephen Milner]

I had wondered about that - but it's definately an image taken from a PA RISC server

[OldSchool]

Torsten
"Your system should have both files (not linked)"

but isn't /bin -> /usr/bin? or did that an 11.0-ism?

[IT_2007]

Since you are trying to load one system image into another there might be some hardware compatable issues.

Try the following

During Ignite re-loading image,

go to Basic tab and advanced and then change HW compatible from FALSE to TRUE.

[Dennis Handly]

>OldSchool: but isn't /bin -> /usr/bin? or did that an 11.0-ism?

That's correct. This has been made permanent on 11.31.

Perhaps Torsten meant /sbin/sh?
That may be the real problem in those scripts, the wrong shell.

[Scot Bean]

Tell us
- the model of the machine you imaged
- the model of the machine you are trying to install with that image