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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Standalone boot tape???
Message-ID: <28510035@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 14:09:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.201346.5731@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
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> Here's one for you HP admin gurus.

  No need for gurus, just RTBOTFM (read the beginning of ...) :-)

  You did not say if the failing system is still down, so I will assume
it is.

  I suppose that before/in the flood of messages from "init" (the
messages you quoted are probably somewhat incorrect :-)) there is no
"login: " message, is there? If there is then just log in and set all
"getty" lines (except for the console) from "respawn" to "off".

  I also suppose that you do not have a Recovery System (which you are
instructed to make on about page 7 of the System Administrator Manual),
otherwise you would not be asking for a "Standalone boot tape".

  If no "login: " and no Recovery System then, if available, hook up the
disk to another working system and use a procedure similar to that for
the Recovery System to inspect and fix you disk.

> (BTW: our systems don't have floppys, just a tape drive.
> 	and hard drives -- of course.
                      ^
  If you have no other system but have (as is implied by the aboove
quote) two or more disks then install HP-UX on the second disk and use
it to fix the first one (You do have backup of the second disk, don't
you?). 

  If no second disk then give the net (in *detail*) *all* the messages,
preferably from power on, but at least from "Booting  /hp-ux", till the
failure point.

  I hope this helps somewhat and the next time PLEASE make a Recovery
System.

Frank Slootweg, Dutch Customer Response Center.