Server takes 30 minutes to boot...

[Jeff Arnold]

I have an HP D class server that takes about 30 minutes to boot. It used to have HP-UX 10.20 and it only took about 10 minutes to boot. Since re-installing HP-UX 11, the boot time has increased dramatically. Any ideas what may cause this? I don't have NFS mounts or any other network problems that I am aware of. Any suggestions?
Thanks.J

[James R. Ferguson]

Jeff:

You might look at /etc/rc.log and /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for anything unusual.

...JRF...

[Alan Riggs]

Is there any chance you had fastboot set before the upgrade nad have not reset it? This would cause a full memory check on reboot, increasing the time of hardware checks before the OS actually boots.

To set or check this, it is necessary to interrupt the boot process. Then enter "fb" from the prompt to check the current state of the flag.

If the time for hardware checks has not increased, then it is likely a delay in one or more of your startup scripts. The best way to find it is to actually watch the boot process on the console (or a remote console). See if any individual components are taking an unusually long time to start.

[Tim Malnati]

Are you possibly using the HPDPS print spooler? Even with patch updates the startup of this process is VERY slow.

[Bill Hassell]

Watch the console messages as it boots. The selftest period will be the same (unless as mentioned, you turned off fastboot which bypasses most of the RAM tests). Then the first 3 quadrant addresses will be reported as the initial loader starts. There will be a short delay and HP-UX will be pulled into RAM.

After vg00 disks are checked for clean status, the logical volumes will be mounted and the startup scripts will begin to run. That's where you may see major delays. Generally, network-based tools (like DPS and other DCE code) can really slow things down. Look at /etc/rc.log to see each each subsystem startup results.

[Patrick Wessel]

is there any chassis code that is on the LCD display for a long period of time?