Server Not getting booted

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
I am having an Hp rx4640 server IA-64 not
getting booted

It stuck at
HP-UX>
please tell me what should I do..
I cannot afford to loose data.

Thanks,
Amit

[Shaikh Imran]

hi,

What is this status
Is it that your console is stopped ? or
You are stopped at the time of boot ?
By any chance could you login or
could you get into the single user mode..
Are you able to get into the EFI prompt ?
Could yo select EFI shell at the
EFI Boot Manager ?


Regards,

[Kent Ostby]

Amit .. assuming you are booted off of the root disk at this time, you can type:

hpux

and hit return and it should boot from there.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Amit,

Do you have autoboot set?
setboot -b on
Run setboot by itself to see the settings.

HTH,
Jeff

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
When the system boots the message appears
"No HPUX filesystem found"

I tried boot, hpux but nothing is working.
Actually Informix got stuck up and one of
the user gave reboot.

After that I am having this problem.

Please help me out I am able to go to EFI
shell and everything.

I cannot afford losing data on this server.

Worst Even if I have to reinstall the O.S.
How can I restore the VG01 which was on
2nd disk.
That is important to me.

Thanks,
Amit

[Sundar_7]

Even if you reinstall the OS,Your VG01 will not be affected.

I am not sure if there is an ignite-ux supported on IA-64 yet - do you have a recovery tape of any kind ?

[Amit Dixit_2]

Sundar,
I have a recovery tape of same kind of
hardware but from different server.

I can use that tape but my concern is
the VG01.

And when I tried all the available
commands on HP-UX firmware

It still displays VMUNIX not found.
AutoBoot not working.

Thanks,
Amit

[Sundar_7]

I am still to work on IA - So cannot help you much here. But one thing you can try.

Try to list all the files in the boot filesystem

hpux ll

see if you have accidently removed vmunix or if you have any old kernels left behind.

[Sundar_7]

I am still to work on IA - So cannot help you much here. But one thing you can try.

Try to list all the files in the boot filesystem

hpux ll

see if you have accidently removed vmunix or if you have any old kernels left.

[Sundar_7]

I know you havenâ t got a solution yet for this problem.

But here is something that you might want to work on.

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[Rgomes]

How about:
1. ISL>hpux -is
or
2.ISL>hpux /stand/vmunix.prev
If you can boot from either of above two( 1 or 2), I guess your system disk is ok.

You can also try to boot from OS CD and run 'run recovery shell'.

regards,
Richard

[e. james]

At the GSP prompt in the MAin menu, do a ser and see which bootable devices you have. also, check your primary boot patch, is it the disk you expect?

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Amit,

1. HPUX> hpux ll /stand
What does that say.. does this list the files in stand directory. If so search for a backup or old kernel in that.
If you don't see any kernel here then
HPUX> hpux ll /stand/last_install
Here you see the old kernel. Note the name of the file, normally it is vmunix.

2. HPUX> boot /stand/vmunix
or in second case:
HPUX> boot /stand/last_install/vmunix

3. Once the server is booted up try to figure out the problem.

Hope that helps.
REgards,