HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes (A.05.01)

Known Problems and Workarounds

A Virtual Partition Remains in Load State with sx2000 Chipset

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A Virtual Partition Remains in Load State with sx2000

Chipset

Related JAG or Patch ID Number

JAGaf88969

Applicable on

❏ vPars A.05.01 on Integrity

❏ vPars A.04.02, A.04.03 on Integrity

Description

On Integrity systems running the sx2000 chipset and Intel Itanium 2

single-core processor with 9 MB cache, a virtual partition remains in the

load state for at least 30 seconds and does not complete its boot process.

Symptoms

The console display includes the following:

Initializing IO Devices ...

LBA Cell 01 (01): Occupied PCI-X 133MHz

Scan PCI:

Rope Slot Seg Bus Dev Fun Card

Loading.: 1/0/1/1/0/4/0.6.0.0.0.0.0

Executing Image: "\EFI\HPUX\HPUX.EFI"

Optional Data : "\EFI\HPUX\HPUX.EFI boot /stand/vmunix"

Starting: 1/0/1/1/0/4/0.6.0.0.0.0.0

reserved

HP-UX Boot Loader for IPF -- Revision 2.027

ESC[0mESC[37mESC[40m> System Memory = 16335 MB

loading section 0

......................................................

(complete) loading section 1 ............ (complete)

loading symbol table loading System Directory (boot.sys) to MFS .....

loading MFSFILES directory (/stand/bootfs) to MFS

..............

Workaround

You can either