Re: How to recover HP-UX system with broken kernel



Benjamin Gawert wrote:
Situation is this: HP c3700 workstation with two 18GB disks. HP-UX 11i v1 has been installed with VERITAS VxFS striped over both disks. I removed some kernel drivers, and after a kernel rebuild and the following reboot the machine crashes.

I bootet of the HP-UX installation CD and tried to do a recovery (replace the kernel). But the recovery script only lets me choose between both disks, it doesn't recognize that this is a stripe set.

Can anyone give me a helping hand here?

Did you save the previous kernel when you build a new one?
If so, tell the bootloader to boot that one instead (i.e.
if you saved it to /stand/vmunix.prev do "hpux vmunix.prev"
at the ISL prompt.

Don

(I thought mk_kernel does this by default - so if even if
you didn't explicitly do it.. try "hpux ls" at the boot
loader and see if there's a vmunix other than the rebuilt
kernel...)
.



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