Offline Diagnostics Environment Administrator's and User's Guide

IMPORTANT: You must restart the system after running any ODE module before booting to
the operating system or running any non-ODE utility.
Running from the System Disk
To run the offline diagnostics tools from the system disk, you must install the LIF-LOAD to the
boot area of the system disk from the HP 9000 Offline Diagnostics Environment CD.
LIF is a subset of the offline diagnostics tools for HP 9000 systems. After LIF is installed, you can
boot the system disk to the ISL prompt, run the ODE program, and then launch the offline
diagnostics tools from the ODE prompt.
The following sections tell you how to determine whether LIF-LOAD is installed on the system
disk, how to install LIF-LOAD on a HP 9000 system, and how to boot from the LIF volume.
NOTE: Prior to September 2005 the LIF volume was a part of the Support Plus Media. Since
then, it is available only on the HP 9000 Offline Diagnostics Environment CD.
Determining Whether LIF-LOAD Is Installed
Complete the following procedure to check if LIF-LOAD is installed on the system disk:
1. Restart the computer to boot to the PDC prompt.
NOTE: PDC prompts may differ from one system to another.
2. At the PDC prompt, boot from the primary boot path:
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > boot primary
3. When prompted, answer yes to interact with the IPL:
Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)? y
This will return the ISL> prompt.
4. Enter the ls command at the ISL prompt:
ISL> ls
If ls returns ODE in its display list, LIF-LOAD is installed on the system. If it is not installed,
see “Installing LIF-LOAD.”
Installing LIF-LOAD
Complete the following procedure for installing the LIF-LOAD product to the boot area of the
system disk:
1. Boot the system to HP-UX.
2. Log in as root.
3. Load the HP 9000 Offline Diagnostics Environment CD to the CD drive.
4. Make a directory from root (/) as a mount point. For example:
# mkdir /Offline_CD
5. Enter the ioscan -fnCdisk command to find the block special device file for the CD
drive. In the following example the block special device file for the CD is /dev/dsk/c0t0d0:
# ioscan -fnCdisk
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
disk 0 10/0/14/0.0.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE TEAC CD-532E-B
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
disk 1 10/0/15/1.4.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST39204LC
/dev/dsk/c3t4d0 /dev/rdsk/c3t4d0
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