Re: SYSTEM CRASH - Need help

After a power fail or system can't reboot.
During boot the following messages appear:

btlan init: WARNING- Unable to setup Read/Write Prefetch lengths
btlan3: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 0/0/0/0....

Starting the STREAMS daemons-phase 1

System panic:

linkstamp: Fri Mar 2 17:53:58 MET 2001
_release_version: @(#)B2352B/9245XB HP/UX (B.11.00) #1: Wed Nov 5 22:38:19 PST 1997
__kern_ci_revision: $Header: kern_sequence.c,v 1.6.106.512 97/11/05 18:01:46 msosa Exp $

panic: all VFS_MOUNTROOTs failed: NEED DRIVERS ?????

Our system is a L1000.
Who can help?

11 REPLIES 11

Hi
Can you boot into single user mode ?

Paula

If you can spell SysAdmin then you is one - anon

Hi
It sounds like your root file systems cannot be mounted:-

have a look here :-

http://europe-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=b9e6a0dd02509d2d32/screen=ckiSearchResults?mode=id&searchString=KBAN00000228

Paula

If you can spell SysAdmin then you is one - anon

Hi
This also may help

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x69a753921f1ad5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Paula

If you can spell SysAdmin then you is one - anon

Hi Paula,

No, I can't boot in single user mode..

Hi
Boot up as per this link
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x69a753921f1ad5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Paula

If you can spell SysAdmin then you is one - anon

Hi Paula,

Thanks for your help.
I logged the problem with HP and am waiting for an engineer for further support.
I will keep you informed.

Hi
Is your root volume mirrored? if so them boot from the alt path.

Paula

If you can spell SysAdmin then you is one - anon

The root file is mirrored, but when trying to boot from the alternate boot path, I get the same result.

Hi
Is it mirrored on a different disk? if not Oh dear.
Do you run ignite? and use make_recovery? if not download it - its free and very good.

It is looking more and more like a dead disk or controller.

Have you tried sea from isl to find which disks are responding?

Paula

If you can spell SysAdmin then you is one - anon

Paula, thanks for all your help.
Eventually, I used the ignite tape to replace te UX on the (mirrored) disks.
That solved the problem.

You can see log from GSP (ctrl+B from console and SL)adn verify the hardware problem.
Boot in maintenance mode is possible?