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

[Chris Townley]

On 01/02/2024 20:27, Iain Smith wrote:
> 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!

Might have been helpful to say that you were cross posting onto the VSI 
forum

-- 
Chris