HPUX :After a Firmware update, the rx7620 would Not boot because the system defaulted to nPars mode and not vPars.

After a Firmware update, the rx7620 would Not boot because the system defaulted to nPars mode and not vPars.

Overview

After a Firmware update, the rx7620 would not boot because the system defaulted to nPars mode and not vPars

Procedures

Upon trying to boot the system using the defined boot menu option, the system fails to boot with: ©) Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.All rights reserved HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.027 Press Any Key to interrupt Autoboot \efi\hpux\AUTO ==> boot /stand/vpmon -a Seconds left till autoboot - 0 AUTOBOOTING...> System Memory = 12151 MB loading section 0 ... (complete) loading section 1 ................................................................................ ......... (complete) loading symbol table loading System Directory (boot.sys) to MFS .....Launching /stand/vpmon SIZE: Text:1126K + Data:45108K + BSS:18958K = Total:65194K Console is on a Serial Device ERROR: Please use the vparenv(1M) command in HP-UX or the vparconfig(1M) command at the EFI prompt to switch to vPars mode . Unsupported boot environment for the vPar monitor. Resetting the system! ======== The /EFI/HPUX directory is missing the vparconfig command. The command needed to be reinstalled using efi_cp by copying the command from /usr/newconfig/sbin/vparconfig.efi to /EFI/HPUX/vparconfig.efi . We first booted the server in nPar mode in order to get the server to a point where we could issue the commands to get the EFI command copied to the disk's EFI partition. Then the disk where the EFI partion resides is c0t6d0s1 , and we used the commands: # lvlnboot -v Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00: Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 (0/0/0/2/0.6.0) -- Boot Disk Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2, 0 # efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s1 /efi/hpux FileName Last Modified Size . 5/ 5/2006 0 .. 5/ 5/2006 0 HPUX.EFI 5/ 5/2006 541306 NBP.EFI 5/ 5/2006 24576 AUTO 5/ 8/2006 21 total space 523251712 bytes, free space 519626752 bytes # efi_cp -d /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s1 vparconfig.efi /efi/hpux # efi_cp -d /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s1 crashdump.efi /efi/hpux # efi_ls -d /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s1 /efi/hpux FileName Last Modified Size . 5/ 5/2006 0 .. 5/ 5/2006 0 HPUX.EFI 5/ 5/2006 541306 NBP.EFI 5/ 5/2006 24576 AUTO 5/ 8/2006 21 crashdump.efi 4/16/2007 107990 vparconfig.efi 4/16/2007 101897 Total space 523251712 bytes, free space 519626752 bytes While the system is still running in nPars mode, use the vparenv command to change to vPars mode: # vparenv -m vpars The other option would be to reboot the system and enter the EFI shell to run the vparconfig command: Shell> fs0: fs0:\> cd efi\hpux fs0:\EFI\HPUX> vparconfig Current mode: nPars. vparconfig supports the following options: vparconfig vparconfig reboot vPars vparconfig reboot nPars fs0:\EFI\HPUX> vparconfig reboot vpars Rebooting ... Affected systems: rx7620 rx7640 rx8620 rx8640 Superdome SX1000 SD32A SD64A Superdome SX2000 SD32B SD64B .

Keywords.

efi_cp, vparenv,