Ignite-UX Installation Booting

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Section II: Troubleshooting the secondary loader
Debugging HP9000 booting problems:
Errors booting HP9000 systems without virtual partitions
It is likely that at some point errors will appear when booting a HP9000 system (without Virtual
Partitions) that are similar to the following errors, though the actual errors vary across systems (the
amount of information provided varies and you might or might not see a hex dump).
ENTRY_INIT
Status = -7
Failed to initialize
The status value helps you isolate and correct the problem.
Table 1 defines some of the errors you might encounter:
Table 1: Errors
Status
Value
Description
-3 Cannot complete call without error – An error of unknown type prevented the call from completing correctly.
-4 Unrecoverable hardware error – An unrecoverable hardware error has occurred between the processor PDC
and IODC on the target controller or device.
-5
Unrecoverable data error - ENTRY_INIT encountered an error while transferring data to/from the target
controller or device.
-6
Illegal device address -- The device address supplied to ENTRY_INIT is invalid; it could never be a valid
device address.
-7 Nonexistent device - The device address specified is a valid device address. However, it points to either a
device that is not installed and/or not responding.
-8 Module/device not ready - The module or device is not ready to be initialized or tested. A module may not
be ready because it is still performing its self-test after reset or power-on.
-9 Cannot locate a console device or boot device -
The search could not locate a console device or boot device
on the module.
-10 Invalid argument.
-13 Protocol error - A protocol violation was encountered on the module-device connection while transferring
data to or from the device, for example, a SCSI protocol error.
-14 Invalid or uninitialized SCSI parms in NVRAM – When initializing a SCSI module, either the SCSI
parameters in the system NVRAM or module NVRAM were not initialized, or they did not agree.