VPAR crashing - won't reset

[Rick Garland]

Hi all:

rp8400 HPUX 11.11, 1 npar 2 vpar

Been doing some disks swap on the system.
Went back to the original disks. Now 1 vpar is booting fine and gets a login. The other vpar is in state "crashing" I am not able to reset it because of its state.

How can I get around this and boot the vpar?

[IT_2007]

vparreset -p vpar2 -h -t

which will halt it and then boot it into single user mode.

vparboot -p vpar2 -o "-is"

once it boots into single user then fix the problem and then reboot normally.

[IT_2007]

you can use "-t" to simulate TOC and "-h" for halting vpar.

[Rick Garland]

During the boot process for the crashing vpar, I get the message "panic: all VFS_MOUNTROOTs failed: NEED DRIVERS ???"

This was a functioning vpar before the disk swap.

[IT_2007]

you said one vpar is up and ruuning and able to login, correct?

What do you mean by disk swapping? are they belong to vg00? or something else?

What is exact situation right now?

[Kevin Wright]

it's probably safe to assume the issue was created when you did the 'disk swapping'.

What did you do? are all disks seated and available? Check the HW path, scan from the ISL, lights etc.

[Rick Garland]

The disk swapping was physically changing disks. We have another set of disks specifically for the 8400. An upgrade of an app was required without overwriting. So, the system was powered off, the original disk were removed and new disks were installed. A new OS with VPAR was loaded.

Now the request is to go back to original. Shutdown system and replace with the original disks.

Yes, I am able to boot the other VPAR and login. No problems.

The situation now is the good VPAR is up and running. Going to run through the commands you posted.

[IT_2007]

somehow your boot record corrupted or changed on boot disks? do you have both primary and alternate boot disks available?

Try to boot vpar into "-lq" option if any mirror disk is missing.

See this link:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1044004