HPPA - Unable to choose boot disk

[Marcel Prisi]

Hi all,

I am trying to "virtualize" an older C3000 application to a qemu based setup. It runs on HP-UX 10.20.

I am running a local compile of qemu-6.0.0 on a x86-64 linux machine.

I successfully dumped the two original HD's to raw images, and am trying to boot from these.

The trouble I have is that the original machine is setup to boot from scsi id6, and second disk is on id5.

Disk on id5 is not bootable, id6 is. in order to be able to boot, I exchanged the scsi id's (disk-id6 is on id5 and disk-id6 on id5)

I do not know much about how LVM finds the hd's, but it is not happy with the current setup, and loops with an lvm error (see log)

I tried loads of '- boot' options, to no success. '-boot menu=on' has no effect.

I had a look at the SeaBios sources but did not get how to influence the hard disk boot selection. It seems to only  boot from lowest scsi id (which appears to be the opposite of standard HPUX system ?). It seems I would need to boot from highest scsi id, or force boot from id 6. I cannot seem to boot to single user mode neither as boot is immediate.

Does anybody have a suggestion ?

Thanks a lot.

Marcel

Console log :

SeaBIOS PA-RISC Firmware Version 1

Duplex Console IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1

Memory Test/Initialization Completed

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(c) Copyright 2017-2020 Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> and SeaBIOS developers.
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Processor Speed State Coprocessor State Cache Size
--------- -------- --------------------- ----------------- ----------
0 250 MHz Active Functional 0 KB
1 250 MHz Idle Functional 0 KB
2 250 MHz Idle Functional 0 KB
3 250 MHz Idle Functional 0 KB


Available memory: 512 MB
Good memory required: 16 MB

Primary boot path: FWSCSI.5.0
Alternate boot path: FWSCSI.2.0
Console path: SERIAL_1.9600.8.none
Keyboard path: PS2

Available boot devices:
1. DVD/CD [lsi 00:00.0 2:0 Drive QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+]
2. lsi 00:00.0 5:0 Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+
3. lsi 00:00.0 6:0 Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+

Booting from lsi 00:00.0 5:0 Drive QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 153

HARD Booted.

ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994

ISL booting hpux

Boot
: disc(8/0/0/0.5.0;0)/stand/vmunix
4579020 + 405504 + 893248 start 0x19ea68
No BTLB entries found for processor 0
vuseg=1916000
nfs_init3 added vfs type nfs3 at slot 4
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 5.
NOTICE: autofs_link(): File system was registered at index 6.
inet_clts:ok inet_cots:ok
System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
Networking memory for fragment reassembly is restricted to 48381952 bytes

Stored message buffer up to panic:
No BTLB entries found for processor 0
vuseg=1916000
nfs_init3 added vfs type nfs3 at slot 4
NOTICE: cachefs_link(): File system was registered at index 5.
NOTICE: autofs_link(): File system was registered at index 6.
inet_clts:ok inet_cots:ok 8 bc
8/0 GSCtoPCI
8/0/0/0 c720
8/0/0/0.2 tgt
8/0/0/0.2.0 sdisk
8/0/0/0.5 tgt
8/0/0/0.5.0 sdisk
8/0/0/0.6 tgt
8/0/0/0.6.0 sdisk
8/0/0/0.7 tgt
8/0/0/0.7.0 sctl
8/0/1/0 btlan3
8/0/63 asio0
8/16 bus_adapter
8/16/4 asio0
8/16/0 CentIf
48 processor
49 processor
50 processor
51 processor
63 memory

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
btlan3: NOTE: Invalid connection type requested: 8 Defaulting to Autosense
btlan3: Initializing 10/100BASE-TX card at 8/0/1/0....
Networking memory for fragment reassembly is restricted to 48381952 bytes
Logical volume 64, 0x3 configured as ROOT
LVM : Activation of root volume group failed
Either no physical volumes are attached or no valid VGDAs were found on the physical volumes.
Quorum not present, or some physical volume(s) are missing


-----------------------------------------------------
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| SYSTEM HALTING during LVM Configuration |
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Could not configure root VG
| |
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B2352B HP-UX (B.10.20) #1: Sun Jun 9 08:03:38 PDT 1996
panic: (display==0xbc00, flags==0x0) LVM: Configuration failure

PC-Offset Stack Trace (read across, most recent is 1st):
0x00259334 0x00290b18 0x00068650 0x0007c198 0x0006c738 0x00094bcc
0x000e012c 0x0019ec60
End Of Stack

0 buffers dirty, timeout set to 0 seconds.
trap type 15, pcsq.pcoq = 0.113870, isr.ior = 0.8
savestate ptr = 0x7ffe6be0, savestate return ptr = 0x113034

System Panic:
B2352B HP-UX (B.10.20) #1: Sun Jun 9 08:03:38 PDT 1996
panic: (display==0xbc00, flags==0x0) Data page fault
It was not possible for the kernel to find a process
that caused this crash.
Dumpsys() called

WARNING: Early dump not configured; ** contact your HP support representative **
WARNING: Can't initialize dump device

Dumpsys() failed, returned 4294967295