server not booting

[ashish_24]

hello,
today when i came in the morning my server showed the message 'exec failed: cannot find /stand/vmunix'..is the reinstalltion only method.. i had no backups of this server as it is a test server..and is there any way that i can find out if anybody removed the kernel manually..

pls help me
thanx

[KapilRaj · Accepted solution]

Y not try to boot with the old kernel as follows,

Press any key while booting

bo pri
Interact with IPL === > Y
hpux /stand/vmunix.prev

Regds,

Kaps

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

hello Asish,


You could follow kapils suggestion.But, the existence of vmunix.prev should be acertained.At the ISL prompt you can issue "hpux ls" and see what is in your /stand directory.this command lists out the contents of /stand directory even before you boot the system.Firstly...see whether you have any other kernel image in /stand..probably u might have "vmunix" word enbedded in its name,that is if intentionally it was named otherwise with different naming convention...

regards,
best of luck,
Senthil

[ashish_24]

thanx to u all guys...i went by the kapil sugeestion and the server booted...the vmunix kernel was missing so i created a copy of vmunix.prev to vmunix...

bye
ashish