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

[Iain Smith]

Iain Smith wrote:
> Iain Smith wrote:
>> 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.
> Update. Running the VALIDATE (option 5) from BOOT_OPTIONS reports the 
> following...
> 
> Validate EFI Boot Options list:   Timeout = 10 secs.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
>     1   OpenVMS Recovered Disk PKA0.5000-00E0-186C-1142            -fl 0,0
>           DKA800 PCI(0|1|1|0) Sas(500000E0186C1142,Lun0)
>           efi$bcfg: Invalid MBR/GPT on Disk.
> 
> So the image restore doesn't set the boot sectors correctly??
SOLVED!

You can examine the boot sector by running...

$ sb:==$sys$system:sys$setboot
$ sb -s -f dka800:

and set the boot sector by running the utility without parameters.

One thing to note that after setting the boot sector I had to re-run the 
boot_options validate option which magically corrected something in the 
EFI settings file.

After that the system booted up!