System does not boot automatically

[Srinivas Krishnappa Sha]

This is an IPF rx4640 Box and it has HP-UX11.23 installed on it.

When ever the System reboots. It does not come up atomatically and ends up with this message

Loading.: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/1/1/0.0.0
Starting: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/1/1/0.0.0
Using EFI boot partition (no HPUX partition on boot media)

(C) Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.018

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\EFI\HPUX\AUTO ==> boot vmunix
Seconds left till autoboot - 0
AUTOBOOTING...
AUTO BOOT> boot vmunix
Could not open file vmunix to check for a directory
Could not open vmunix

kernel loading failed

HPUX>


However we can select select "EFI Shell [Built-in]" from EFI prompt and do the following

Shell> fs0:

fs0:\> ls
Directory of: fs0:\

07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 EFI
07/14/05 12:41p 296 STARTUP.NSH
1 File(s) 296 bytes
1 Dir(s)


fs0:\> cd EFI

fs0:\EFI> ls
Directory of: fs0:\EFI

07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 .
07/14/05 12:33p 0 ..
07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 HPUX
07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 Intel_Firmware
07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 DIAG
07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 HP
07/14/05 12:34p 4,096 TOOLS
0 File(s) 0 bytes
7 Dir(s)


fs0:\EFI> cd HPUX

fs0:\EFI\HPUX> ls
Directory of: fs0:\EFI\HPUX

07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 .
07/14/05 12:33p 4,096 ..
07/14/05 01:08p 521,494 HPUX.EFI
07/14/05 12:41p 24,576 NBP.EFI
07/14/05 12:41p 12 AUTO
3 File(s) 546,082 bytes
2 Dir(s)

fs0:\EFI\HPUX> hpux.efi

(C) Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.All rights reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.018

Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot
\efi\hpux\AUTO ==> boot vmunix
Seconds left till autoboot - 10
Type 'help' for help

System will boot now.

Can you please let me know what are the cnages that i need to do, if i want the system to come up automatically.

[D Block 2]

when u do manually boot up HP-UX, can you run a command: setboot
does it point to: HP-UX Primary Boot: 0/1/1/0.0.0


what is: 0/1/1/0.0.0 ? is this your boot disk or you DVD address ?

[singvey]

you can select a boot area from the efi boot manager:
Boot option maintenance menu
Use ^ and v to change option(s). Use Enter to select an option

you select the boot option menu and select the harddisk boot selection

[Srinivas Krishnappa Sha]

Hello Tom,

The information you requested.
The hardware path 0/1/1/0.0.0 is a boot disk

# setboot
Primary bootpath : 0/1/1/0.0.0
HA Alternate bootpath :
Alternate bootpath : 0/1/2/0

Autoboot is ON (enabled)
# ioscan -fnC disk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
============================================================================
disk 0 0/0/3/0.0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC DV-28E-B
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 0/1/1/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373453LC
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s2
/dev/dsk/c2t0d0s1 /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s1 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s3
disk 2 0/1/1/0.1.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 73.4GST373453LC
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t1d0
disk 3 255/255/0/0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d0
disk 4 255/255/0/0.1 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d1 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d1
disk 5 255/255/0/0.2 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d2 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d2
disk 6 255/255/0/0.3 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d3 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d3
disk 7 255/255/0/0.4 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d4 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d4
disk 8 255/255/0/0.5 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d5 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d5
disk 9 255/255/0/0.6 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d6 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d6
disk 10 255/255/0/0.7 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HSV100 HP
/dev/dsk/c12t0d7 /dev/rdsk/c12t0d7
#

[dave daniels_2]

Srinivas,

I have the same issue, have you resolved it?
Would appreciate any help, I have HP involved and they have not come up with an answer as of yet.

Thanks,
Dave

[Alan Meyer_4]

I just ran across this problem on a PA-RISC machine over the weekend. The issue was the when I did a lvlnboot -v, the boot area was not defined. This was due to the fact that the boot partition, lvol1, was not the first lv on the mirrored disk. To resolve the problem, I brioke the mirror and I was able to define the boot area with lvlnboot -b.

Once the machine was up and stable, I re-established all the mirrors in the proper order on the 2nd disk.

[Hanh Nguyen Cam]

Hi all,

I think you should downgrade Firmware of EFI and BMC, may be to 2.13.

Good luck,
Hanh.

[Anil]

Hi,

I'm also facing the same problem with rx4640. Please update me if any solution ..

Thanks in advance,
Anil

[dave daniels_2]

I fixed this issue by reflashing the firmware, (HP was of no help). It turned out there was a mismatch with the firmware on the scsi cntrl.

[Vijaya Bandaru]

Hi,
I am using rx4640 and have the same issue.

Dave,
Could you please let me know the steps for
"fixed this issue by reflashing the firmware, (HP was of no help). It turned out there was a mismatch with the firmware on the scsi cntrl. "

Regards,
Vijay

[dave daniels_2]

Vijay,

You need to go to the firmware download page and install the latest firmware bundle for your operating system.

-dave

[ITeam]

Hi.

We have just experienced the same problem on an rx7640 running 11.23. This occurred when we tested a mirror of the boot disk (after installing Mirror disk UX) by selecting it from the EFI boot menu.

Can you verify that the firmware download resolved the problem?

Many thanks,

David