Check your termination. What kind of disks are connected (ie are they
supported)?

From the boot menu (interrupt at the 10 second prompt), do a search or
io command and see what is out there.

Best Regards,

HP_BRS



"David Coles" <david.coles5@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<1098013409.6maPRfJDhNbOVvMBtDUOVA@teranews>. ..
> I am rebuilding a B2000 from an ignite boot image and on boot up, the system
> does not recognise that it has a hard disk installed. I have tried the disk
> in both the SCSI 6 and SCSI 5 positions. The disk is spinning in both slots.
>
> The unit does recognise the CD-ROM drive and an externally connected DAT
> tape drive. I enclose the output from the system below. Any help you could
> give would be most appreciated
>
> ================================================== ======
> NOTE: System rebooting...
>
> Firmware Version 5.0
>
> Duplex Console IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (c) Copyright 1995-2000, Hewlett-Packard Company, All rights reserved
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Processor Speed State Coprocessor State I/D Cache
> --------- -------- --------------------- ----------------- -------------
> 0 400 MHz Active Functional 512 kB/1
> MB
>
> Central Bus Speed: 120 MHz
>
> Available memory: 268435456 bytes
> Good memory required: 16547840 bytes
>
> Primary boot path: SCSI.6.0
> Alternate boot path: SCSI.5.0
> Console path: GRAPHICS(0)
> Keyboard path: USB
>
> Processor is booting from first available device.
>
> To discontinue, press any key within 10 seconds.
>
> 10 seconds expired.
> Proceeding...
>
> Searching for device(s) with bootable media...
> This may take several minutes.
>
> To discontinue search, press any key (termination may not be immediate).
>
> Attempting to boot Primary Path...
> Attempted boot failed, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot Alternate Path...
> Attempted boot failed, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid device on FWSCSI ...
> Module not found, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid device on PCI1 ...
> Module not found, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid device on PCI2 ...
> Attempted boot failed, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid device on PCI3 ...
> Attempted boot failed, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid device on PCI4 ...
> Module not found, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid device on SCSI ...
> Attempted boot failed, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid server on LAN ...
> Attempted boot failed, continuing search
>
> Attempting to boot first valid device on IDE ...
>
> BOOTABLE DEVICE FOUND:
> Path Number Device Path Device Type and Utilities
> ----------- ----------------- -------------------------
> P0 IDE FX4830T
> IPL
>
> Booting...
> Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 0
>
>
> HARD Booted.
>
> ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994
>
> ISL booting hpux (;0):INSTALL
>
> Boot
> : disk(10/0/14/0.0.0.0.0.0.0;0):INSTALL
> 6114188 + 737280 + 409824 start 0x195068
> 0 STIME0: 0c
> 4c: STEST3: 80 STEST2: 00 STEST1: 0c STEST0: 07
> 50: RESV50: 80 STEST4: e0 SIDL1: 00 SIDL0: 00
> 54: RESV54: 00 RESV55: 00 SODL1: 00
> System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
> Networking memory for fragment reassembly is restricted to 23846912 bytes
> Swap device table: (start & size given in 512-byte blocks)
> entry 0 - auto-configured on root device; ignored - no room
> WARNING: No dump device configured. Dump is disabled.
> Starting the STREAMS daemons.
> 9245XB HP-UX (B.10.20) #1: Sun Jun 9 06:31:19 PDT 1996
>
> Memory Information:
> physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size = 4096 bytes
> Physical: 262144 Kbytes, lockable: 190496 Kbytes, available: 220120
> Kbytes
>
> ======= 10/17/04 05:51:51 EDT HP-UX Installation Initialization. (Sun Oct
> 17
> 05:51:51 EDT 2004)
> @(#) Ignite-UX Revision A.2.6.358
> @(#) install/init (opt) $Revision: 10.201 $
> * EISA configuration has completed. Following the completion of a
> successful HP-UX installation, please check the
> "/etc/eisa/config.err"
> file for any EISA configuration messages.
> * Scanning system for IO devices...
> * Querying graphics device: 10/1/0/0 ...
> NOTE: Primary path not currently set to an existing disk device.
> * Setting keyboard language.
>
> A USB interface has been detected on this system.
> In order to use a keyboard on this interface, you must specify
> a language mapping which will be used by X windows and
> the Internal Terminal Emulator (ITE).
> The characters "1234567890" will appear as "!@#$^&*()"
> on keyboards that use the shift key to type a number.
> Your choice will be stored in the file /etc/kbdlang
>
>
> 1) USB_PS2_DIN_Belgian 2) USB_PS2_DIN_Belgian_Euro
> 3) USB_PS2_DIN_Danish 4) USB_PS2_DIN_Danish_Euro
> 5) USB_PS2_DIN_Euro_Spanish 6) USB_PS2_DIN_Euro_Spanish_Euro
> 7) USB_PS2_DIN_French 8) USB_PS2_DIN_French_Euro
> 9) USB_PS2_DIN_German 10) USB_PS2_DIN_German_Euro
> 11) USB_PS2_DIN_Italian 12) USB_PS2_DIN_Italian_Euro
> 13) USB_PS2_DIN_JIS_109 14) USB_PS2_DIN_Korean
> 15) USB_PS2_DIN_Norwegian 16) USB_PS2_DIN_Norwegian_Euro
> 17) USB_PS2_DIN_S_Chinese 18) USB_PS2_DIN_Swedish
> 19) USB_PS2_DIN_Swedish_Euro 20) USB_PS2_DIN_Swiss_French2_Euro
> 21) USB_PS2_DIN_Swiss_German2 22) USB_PS2_DIN_Swiss_German2_Euro
> 23) USB_PS2_DIN_T_Chinese 24) USB_PS2_DIN_UK_English
> 25) USB_PS2_DIN_UK_English_Euro 26) USB_PS2_DIN_US_English
> 27) USB_PS2_DIN_US_English_Euro
>
> Enter the number of the language you want: 24
>
> You have selected the keyboard language USB_PS2_DIN_UK_English.
> Please confirm your choice by pressing RETURN or enter a new number:
>
>
> Welcome to Ignite-UX!
>
> Use the <tab> key to navigate between fields, and the arrow keys
> within fields. Use the <return/enter> key to select an item.
> Use the <return> or <space-bar> to pop-up a choices list. If the
> menus are not clear, select the "Help" item for more information.
>
> Hardware Summary: System Model: 9000/785/B2000
> +---------------------+----------------+-------------------+ [ Scan
> gain ]
> | Disks: 0 ( 0.0GB) | Floppies: 0 | LAN cards: 2 |
> | CD/DVDs: 1 | Tapes: 1 | Memory: 256Mb |
> | Graphics Ports: 1 | IO Buses: 4 | CPUs: 1 | [ H/W
> Details ]
> +---------------------+----------------+-------------------+
>
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>
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>
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