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From: yas@hpycla.kobe.hp.com (Yasuyuki Suzuki) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 07:08:51 GMT Subject: Re: Re: Endless boot cycle- suggestions? (SOLUTION) Message-ID: <45240002@hpycla.kobe.hp.com> Organization: HP Kobe Systems Operation, Kobe, Japan Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpcc05!hpyhde4!hpycla!yas Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd References: <Aug.14.12.34.42.1992.8037@action.rutgers.edu> Lines: 32 >>armhold> "Press any key to reboot from HD". I do, and the machine >>armhold> goes into an endless boot cycle. When it tries to read the bootstrap >>armhold> code from the HD it does a hard reset, memory check, etc, and then >>armhold> loops again. >> >>This is exactly the same situation as mine! >>The following is my configuration. > > This problem seem to occur as the result not being able to find the disk > label. You can check this by: Thank you Mr.Lambert. > 3a) If it mounted, this isn't the problem, and you should unmount it: Yes, my HP2213A SCSI disk was mounted without error. I abandoned using install(8). I manually disklabeled, newfsed and mounted my SCSI disk. But while copying files to the SCSI disk, file corruptions and panics ocuured VERY frequently. I changed fragment size 512bytes to 1KB. Because HP-UX which supports HP2213A uses only 1KB sector size. So, HP2213A may not be tested less than 1KB fragment size. Then, data corruptions and panics have disappeared. And it finally booted off from the SCSI disk. -- Yasuyuki Suzuki yas@kobe.hp.com +81-78-993-2846 (JAPAN) Client Technology Lab., Kobe Systems Operation, Hewlett-Packard