system boot issue

[Jimmy0402]

I have HP Prolient DL 380 G5 server with RHEL 4 AS updte 5 operating system. I have installed the HP PSP support pack. and everythign was fine. Now I am experiencing problem in server boot. The boot process stops/hangs after "Starting HP version Control Agent" Service. Nothing happens after this. Please help me to resolve this issue.

[Court Campbell]

Try breaking out of the start using Ctrl+|. Otherwise boot into single user mode or use the rescue cd and use chkconfig to remove the service from startup and reboot. You may also want to check your log files once you are in to see if you can find the issue.

[Court Campbell]

I guess I could have explained that better. when you see the service try to start hit ctrl+shift+|. that is the pipe symbol.

[Jimmy0402]

I did press CTRL+SHIFT+| 'pipe' before this hpvca service starts but nothing happned its the same as before. I also disabled hpvca service in rescue mode then on booting normal its the same again. The boot process stops at the previous service.

[Nuwan Alwis]

If you know how to boot this system to single user mode you can type "Setup" and run setup utility. this will give you the chance of turn off services that create this problem.
if you dont know how to boot in to single user mode i can help you if replied.

[Jimmy0402]

I have disabled these services in setup utility on booting in rescue mode, but the boot process does not complete to get me to login prompt. It just stopped at the service that starts before hpvca service,
If using single user mode can help please help.

[Court Campbell]

What's the service?

[Jimmy0402]

After a long search, I solved the issue, it was something with /etc/inittab file, that was unable to load. But now I m facing problem in network interfaces. I had configured bonding in eth0 and eth1 before, but now on issuing ifconfig command it only show localhost IP.

[Court Campbell]

Are you still in single user mode?

[Jimmy0402]

no, I am using Run level 3 [multi user]. the network and bonding was working fine before,, but after I resolved this issue, network interfces are not working. Can u please help me.

[Ivan Krastev]

Check syslog, boot.msg, dmesg for network errors. Try to restart network service and see output from script.

regards,
ivan

[Jimmy0402]

finally my server is ready working normally. for network interface i need to reinstall the bnx2 driver, may be in process of solving the firt issue I had messed up with the network driver. I am really thankful to all for being there.