0555 Boot Code Hang

[383bigblock]

Hello,
This is a little unorthadox of a situation. Working with 2 7044-270 (44P) servers. I turn these into Printer Controllers for IBM Infoprint 4000 Mainframe printers. I have 2 that are hanging on boot up showing a display code (on the server) of 0555 (never seen this before and I've been doing this for 6 years). The best digging that I could do was to find a list of poweron self Test codes that included this:
555 - An ODM error occurred when trying to varyon the rootvg, or unable to create an
NFS swap device during network boot.

This doesn't make sense since I went into SMS and removed "boot from network" from the boot order.

Any help would be appreciated in identifying what it is hanging up on .

Michael

 

[p5wizard]

the google hit you found is ancient information...

Here's what I found:
555 Using the fsck -fp /dev/hd4 command on the root file system failed with a nonzero return code. The system halts

See if you can boot the system from CD or mksysb tape and access rootvg, start shell before mounting filesystems and try that fsck -fp /dev/hd4 manually and see what's wrong with it. But it doesn't sound good.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[383bigblock]

Thanks - I can boot from CD and run diagnostics and everything passes for the most part (SSA adapters fail for an open loop which is true)I pulled a new harddrive off the shelf and the server went past 0555 and came up. Looks like there is something wrong with the original drive that contained my controller code. Best I can tell is that the server could not recognize the drive as being valid or having a boot partition and defaulted to looking to the network to boot.

I'm not sure what caused the error or exactly what it was but at least I have the box running.