unable to boot the tru64 unix server from the SRM prompt

[sk.imran]

Please help me in this prblem.....

OS: Tru 64 Unix

Server Automatically goes to the SRM prompt..or automatically goes down
and when when I am trying to boot ther server from the "boot" command...

P00>> boot
it display an error message after initializing the system like ...

cant open vmunix
trying /etc/sysconfigtab.34
Loading /etc/sysconfigtab.34 ...
Loading at fffffc0000240000
Linking 153 objects: 153 cant open /sys/BINARY/TSUNAMI.mod

halted CPU 0
halt code = 5
HALT instruction executed
PC = 200104f0

Please help me in this prblem.....
........
Thanks in advance...
Imran

[sk.imran]

........
Please help ...
its urgent....
I am not very much familiar with Tru64 Unix....

Imran

[Vladimir Fabecic]

You may have hardware problem (disk) or somebody deleted some files from your boot disk (kernel vmunix).
Give more details such as when did it happened and what have been done on your system before that.
And send output of:
>>> show
Did you try to boot generic kernel?
>>> boot -file genvmunix

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Imran,

In addition to Vladimir's suggestion, you might also want to try booting into single user mode...

>>> boot -flag s -file genvmunix

I'll guess you might have a corrupt or damaged system disk... Getting into single user, may enable you to fix it.

Failing that you might have to boot off and installation CD, drop to the Unix shell, and see if you can repair things from there.

Cheers,

Rob

[Vladimir Fabecic]

sk.imran
any update?

[sk.imran]

Hello,

Thanks for the response.
I went for leave...
yet the problem is not solved...
I have tried to boot from single user mode
but it is also failed....

Please help me how to solve this problem beacuse I dont have good experience in Tru64 Unix.

Here we are running Tru64 V5.1, the client has missed the Installation media...
anyway we arranged the Tru64 V5.1B media but this is newer version of that we have.

please help me, how to mount the disks after booting from the CD.

and how to recover the data also...

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Then please send output of this:
1.
>>> show
2.
>>> boot -file genvmunix
3.
>>> boot -flag s -file genvmunix

Error messages can help us a lot.

[sk.imran]

Thanks,

When I have entered the command

P00>>>boot -file genvmunix
P00>>>boot -flag s -file genvmunix

the output is same like:

(boot dkd0.0.0.9.0 -file genvmunix -flag h)
block 0 of dkd0.0.0.9.0 is a valid boot block
reading 13 blocks from dkd0.0.0.9.0
bootstrap code in
base=200000, image_start=0. image_byte=1a00
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 3ff58000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code

can't open osf_boot

halted CPU 0

halt code = 5
HALT instructio executed
PC=20000030

.....
Please help to solve this problem...

[Vladimir Fabecic]

So you have corrupted or damaged system disk.
You will need boot CD.
Do you have backup?

[sk.imran]

Thanks...

Yes, we have old backup vdump sysbackup.
...
how will I recover the system??
after booting from the Media CD Tru64 Unix V5.1B

please help me all steps required to perform this....because I m very new in Tru64 Unix...

waiting for ur reply..

[sk.imran]

Dear Vladimir Fabecic,

I think this is due to missing file.

osf_boot

becuase in the it cant open osf_boot

is there in any way to copy the file from the cd or tape.

if it is possible ..please help me..

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Yes, there is a way to recover osf_boot.
First you need boot CD.
When will you have it?

[sk.imran]

Thanks..
I have already Tru64 Unix V5.1B Media

I tried to boot from media

and then in the Unix shell what are the steps to be performed ..please give the details..

and how to mount the dsk0 disk and how to copy the file from the media or tape device.

Please give the steps..

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Try:
# cd /etc/fdmns
# mkdir tmproot
# cd tmproot
# ln -s /dev/disk/dsk0a
# cd /
# mount tmproot#root /mnt
Then do:
# ls -al /mnt
and send output
In case of any error message, please post them.

[Vladimir Fabecic]

sk.imran
Did you understand my previous post?
Do I need to explain?

[sk.imran]

Thanks for ur reply.

I did what u have sent
as

# cd /etc/fdmns
# mkdir tmproot
# cd tmproot
# ln -s /dev/disk/dsk0a
# cd /
# mount tmproot#root /mnt

# ls -al /mnt
Output: only showing the two file and one directory as:

dwrxr-xr-x 3 root system 8192 Aug 27 06:16 .
dwrxr-xr-x 21 root system 8192 Oct 24 2002 ..
dwrx------ 2 root system 8192 Aug 27 06:16 .tags
-rx-r----- 1 root operator 8192 Aug 27 06:16 quota.qruop
-rx-r----- 1 root operator 8192 Aug 27 06:16 quota.user


I am not able to access the disk after mounting to /mnt

...

[Vladimir Fabecic]

This looks like empty file system.
Post output of:
# disklabel -r dsk0
and
# hwmgr -show scsi

[sk.imran]

# disklabel -r dsk0
#/dev/rdisk/dsk0c:
type:SWXCR
disk:SWXCR
label:
flags: dynami_geometry
bytes/sector:512
sectors/tracks: 32
tracks/cylinders: 128
Cylinders: 4339
sectors/unit: 17772544
rpm:3600
interleave:1
cylinderskew:0
headswitch:0
track-to-track seed:0
drivedata: 0

8 Partitions:
# size offset fstyp fsize bsize cpg # Cyl-val
a: 131072 0 Advfs # 0-31
b: 162144 131072 unused 0 0 # 32-95
c: 17772544 0 unused 0 0 # 0-4338
d: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0
e: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0
f: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0
g: 17379328 393216 unused 0 0 # 96-4338
h: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0


and

# hwmgr -show scsi

its showing the

SCSI DEVICE DEVICE DRIVER NUM DEVICE FIRST
HWID: DEVICEID HOSTNAME TYPE SUBTYPE OWNER PATH FILE VALID PATH
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
57: 1 cdrom none 2 1 cdrom0 [1/0/0]
58: 2 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/0/0]
59: 3 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/1/0]
60: 4 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/2/0]
61: 5 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/3/0]
62: 6 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/4/0]
63: 7 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/5/0]
64: 8 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/6/0]
66: 0 changer none 0 1 dsk1 [0/6/0]

[sk.imran]

sorry..please ignore my previous reply...


# disklabel -r dsk0
#/dev/rdisk/dsk0c:
type:SWXCR
disk:SWXCR
label:
flags: dynami_geometry
bytes/sector:512
sectors/tracks: 32
tracks/cylinders: 128
Cylinders: 4339
sectors/unit: 17772544
rpm:3600
interleave:1
cylinderskew:0
headswitch:0
track-to-track seed:0
drivedata: 0

8 Partitions:
# size offset fstyp fsize bsize cpg # Cyl-val
a: 131072 0 Advfs # 0-31
b: 162144 131072 unused 0 0 # 32-95
c: 17772544 0 unused 0 0 # 0-4338
d: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0
e: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0
f: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0
g: 17379328 393216 unused 0 0 # 96-4338
h: 0 0 unused 0 0 # 0-0


and

# hwmgr -show scsi

its showing the


SCSI DEVICE DEVICE DRIVER NUM DEVICE FIRST
HWID: DEVICEID HOSTNAME TYPE SUBTYPE OWNER PATH FILE VALID PATH
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
57: 1 cdrom none 2 1 cdrom0 [1/0/0]
58: 2 disk none 0 1 dsk1 [5/0/0]
59: 3 disk none 0 1 dsk2 [5/1/0]
60: 4 disk none 0 1 dsk3 [5/2/0]
61: 5 disk none 0 1 dsk4 [5/3/0]
62: 6 disk none 0 1 dsk5 [5/4/0]
63: 7 disk none 0 1 dsk6 [5/5/0]
64: 8 disk none 0 1 dsk7 [5/6/0]
66: 0 changer none 0 1 null [0/6/0]

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Very strange output of disklabel!
Only partition "a" marked as advfs???
Did someone play with this server?
As I can see from hwmgr output you have SWXCR RAID controller configured with 7 LUNs, probably JBODs.
Is everything OK with hardware (any amber lights?)
Were you able to mount "old root" or not?
What is the output of:
# df

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

Can you post as much detail about the hardware as you can please... The output of "show dev" from the P00>>> prompt would be useful.

Going through the previous posts, I suspect that you are not booting from the correct disk. If you have got a SWXCR card, then I'll guess that your boot device should be a DR* device rather than DK*.

The output of "show boot*" would also help.

Cheers,

Rob

[Vladimir Fabecic]

And output of:
>>> show *
would also help

[sk.imran]

Dear Vladimir Fabecic,

Thanks for the reply.

As i concerned no one plays with the server after it goes down.

And today we got the right media V5.1

and df command shows the cd partition and the new / partition nothiong esle.

As we have sysbackup...

please give the steps to perform the restoration and how to install it.

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Before that, please sent output of:
>>> show device
>>> show config
to have more information about your hardware.

[sk.imran]

Hello,

Please find the sh dev and sh config command output.

P00>>>sh dev
dkd0.0.9.0 DKD0 RZ2DA-LA N1H1
dkd100.1.0.9.0 DKD100 COMPAQ BD0366349C 3B06
dkd200.2.0.9.0 DKD200 COMPAQ BD0366349C 3B06
dkd300.3.0.9.0 DKD300 COMPAQ BD0366349C 3B06
dkd400.4.0.9.0 DKD400 COMPAQ BD0366349C 3B06
dkd500.5.0.9.0 DKD500 COMPAQ BD0366349C 3B06
dkd600.6.0.9.0 DKD600 RZ1DB-CA LYJ0
dqa0.0.0.105.0 DQA0 CD-224E 9.5B
dra0.0.0.7.1 DRA0 2 Member RAID 1
dva0.0.0.0.0 DVA0
jba601.6.0.8.1 JKA601 BECHMARK VS640 5032
jba600.6.0.8.1 JKA600 BECHMARK VS640 5032
eia0.0.0.9.1 EIA0 00-50-8B-6D-FB-76
pka0.7.0.8.1 PKA0 SCIS BUS ID 7 5.57
pkb0.7.0.6.1 PKB0 SCIS BUS ID 7
pkc0.7.0.106.1 PKC0 SCIS BUS ID 7
pkd0.7.0.9.1 PKD0 SCIS BUS ID 7 5.57



P00>>>sh config

the out out is so log but I am giving u the some details:

P00>>>sh config

SRM Console: V5.8-10

Bus 00 Slot 09:Qlogic ISP10x0
pkd0.7.0.9.1 SCSI Bus ID 7
dkd0.0.0.9.0 RZ2DA-LA
dkd100.1.0.9.0 COMPAQ BD0366349C
dkd200.2.0.9.0 COMPAQ BD0366349C
dkd300.3.0.9.0 COMPAQ BD0366349C
dkd400.4.0.9.0 COMPAQ BD0366349C
dkd500.5.0.9.0 COMPAQ BD0366349C
dkd600.6.0.9.0 RZ1DB-CA



waiting for ur reply!!!