If you're using HP-UX 10.20, you can boot from the Support CD; For HP-UX 11, the Recovery commands are on the Install CD.
Do you have a support contract with HP and/or access to itrc.hp.com? I can give you some references to help you check and recover corruption, but if the disk is failing you...
"Transition links" are for backward compatibility with old HP-UX filesystem layouts, e.g. /bin is now a link to /usr/bin
# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlremove
# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall -v
should remove & recreate the necessary links.
Otherwise, check if /usr/bin/kdestroy is a file or if...
You could try
`fsck -F vxfs -o full,nolog /dev/vg00/lvol4`
(don't use the -y option) and then
`reboot -n`
As a last resort, newfs the filesystem and restore from backups - But this does sound like a hardware problem :-(
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