We have hp rp2470 server running hp-ux 11.00, with LVM mirroring. As for redundancy we have second rp2470 same hw (same two processors, same ram, same two hdd’s, same number of lan cards). I want to clone first one to the second. For that purpose I am making ignite tape with the following command: make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00

Ignite tape finishes without problems. When I boot second server from this ignate tape, server is starting to boot, and ignite restore finishes without any errors, only few notes, which are normal.

However vmunix is not booting and when restore finishes, it boot to ISL> prompt. From this I cannot boot /stand/vmunix.

I tried to run recovery shell but no success. When recovery shell ask to do frecover to restore critical files, then I receive error: frecover(5405): unable to open /dev/rmt/0m


At first I thought that the problem might be in the difference of the firmware version of the servers:

fw version of production server is: Firmware Version 43.50

and fw version of backup server is: Firmware Version 42.19


So i did a fw upgrade of my backup server so that both servers are v43.50, and tried a recovery but again cant boot the system.

Next I did another archive tape with -I (Interactive) flag: make_tape_recovery -I -x inc_entire=vg00

and tried recovery with it, again no good.

I cannot find any error or warnings on ignite log, and I cannot boot hpux. I am only on ISL> prompt.

This is what i've noticed on the gsp logs:

************* SYSTEM ALERT **************
SYSTEM NAME: mcnfwim1
DATE: 07/27/2003 TIME: 10:18:49
ALERT LEVEL: 6 = Boot possible, pending failure - action required
REASON FOR ALERT
SOURCE: 8 = I/O
SOURCE DETAIL: 6 = disk SOURCE ID: 0
PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 = no problem detail
LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER
FLASH OFF ON ON ON
LED State: Boot Failed. Running non-OS code.
Check Chassis and Console Logs for error messages.
0x00000060860010B0 00000000 00000000 - type 0 = Data Field Unused
0x58000860860010B0 00006706 1B0A1231 - type 11 = Timestamp 07/27/2003 10:18:49

And another gsp log:

Log Entry #   3 :
SYSTEM NAME: mcnfwim1
DATE: 07/27/2003 TIME: 10:12:20
ALERT LEVEL: 6 = Boot possible, pending failure - action required
SOURCE: 8 = I/O
SOURCE DETAIL: 6 = disk   SOURCE ID: 0
PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 = no problem detail
CALLER ACTIVITY: 1 = test   STATUS: 0
CALLER SUBACTIVITY: 0B = implementation dependent
REPORTING ENTITY TYPE: 0 = system firmware   REPORTING ENTITY ID: 00
0x00000060860010B0 00000000 00000000 type  0 = Data Field Unused
0x58000860860010B0 00006706 1B0A0C14 type 11 = Timestamp 07/27/2003 10:12:20
Type CR for next entry, - CR for previous entry, Q CR to quit.

Please note that I can not change anything on the production server. I can only make changes to the backup server.

Any help is appreciated.