Older HP 735 will not boot up.

[mbutton]

Hey all,

I have an older HP735 running HPUX 9, it is set up as a master for a bunch of C-Nodes (cluster). Someone went in the other day and removed the kernel /hp-ux from that location to another partition (as far as they remember - but they can not remember what ).

Now performing reboots the node drops into a ISL>...

Any suggestions on how I can get this up and going again.

 

[jdktek]

Try to find a HP-UX "System Administration Tasks" book.
It should be with your other hp-ux manuals.
In that book, ther should be booting instructions.
From my fragmented 7.x-9.x memory;
There hopefully is a backup kernel still in place.
@ ISL type " hpux /hp-ux.BCKUP " or " hpux /hp-ux.BACKUP ".
I can't remember, "bckup" or "backup" might have been lower case.

The other thing that comes to mind, press the esc key while booting. If I remember correctlly, it will search for potential boot devices.

Hope this helps!
~jdk