[Info-vax] Booting from new disk (rx2660)

Iain Smith iain at issinoho.com
Thu Feb 1 08:05:00 EST 2024


Hardware type: HP rx2660  (1.59GHz/6.0MB)
Software type: OpenVMS IA64 V8.4

Hi all, we had a boot disk crash in a rx2660 and replaced by a 
maintenance guy. Confirmed that both original disk and new disk are of 
type, HP DG036A9BB6

Disk is recognised as DKA800: and I've done an image restore from from a 
DVD boot which went without error.

I then used @sys$manager:boot_options from the DVD boot to create a new 
entry for that disk to the Boot Options list at position 1. See the 
following...

EFI Boot Options list:   Timeout = 10 secs.

Entry  Description                                                Options
-----  ---------------------------------------------------------- 
-------------
    1   OpenVMS Recovered Disk PKA0.5000-00E0-186C-1142            -fl 0,0
          DKA800 PCI(0|1|1|0) Sas(500000E0186C1142,Lun0)
    2   hp I64 OpenVMS PKA0.5000-00E0-1421-C9C2                    -fl 0,0
          Device not Found
    3   Internal Bootable DVD
          DNA0 PCI(0|0|2|1) Usb(0,0)
    4   iLO Virtual Media
          Device not Found
    5   Core LAN A
          EWA0 PCI(0|1|2|0) Mac(0017a4ab6251)
    6   Core LAN B
          EWB0 PCI(0|1|2|1) Mac(0017a4ab6250)
    7   EFI Shell [Built-in]
          VenHw(d65a6b8c-71e5-4df0-d2f009a9)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

5 entries found.

(The entry in position 2 is the entry for the original disk.)

The problem is that the system will not boot off that disk and I get the 
following sequence...

PKA0.5000-00E0-186C-1142
Load of OpenVMS Recovered Disk PKA0.5000-00E0-186C-1142 failed: Not Found

Loading.: hp I64 OpenVMS PKA0.5000-00E0-1421-C9C2
Load of hp I64 OpenVMS PKA0.5000-00E0-1421-C9C2 failed: Not Found

Loading.: Internal Bootable DVD

My first question is: am I missing anything here? If not, what could be 
going wrong. All input gratefully received.

TIA.



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