Hi Jun

> I have an H40 running hpux-11.00. Whenever you do a reboot, it will drop
> you to a root shell, without anything mounted. You can type init 3 to
> get the system fully functional, though.
>
> autoboot is enabled, and initdefault is 3 in inittab.
Two possibilities come to my mind:

1.) your bootstring is set to "hpux -is" or "hpux -lm", which would cause
this.
Check it with:

lifcp /dev/dsk/c1t2d0:AUTO -

2.) You entered a shell other than /sbin/sh as shell for root in
/etc/passwd.
/sbin/sh is mandatory (exception: you do not have seperated mountpoints for
/usr and /var). As far as I know a csh-style shell won't work ever.

Florian

Florian,
You got my problem solved. The specified root shell is
/usr/bin/ksh. I changed it to /sbin/ksh and the system booted up.
Thank you very much!

Jun

Florian Anwander wrote:
> Hi Jun
>
>
>>I have an H40 running hpux-11.00. Whenever you do a reboot, it will drop
>>you to a root shell, without anything mounted. You can type init 3 to
>>get the system fully functional, though.
>>
>>autoboot is enabled, and initdefault is 3 in inittab.
>
> Two possibilities come to my mind:
>
> 1.) your bootstring is set to "hpux -is" or "hpux -lm", which would cause
> this.
> Check it with:
>
> lifcp /dev/dsk/c1t2d0:AUTO -
>
> 2.) You entered a shell other than /sbin/sh as shell for root in
> /etc/passwd.
> /sbin/sh is mandatory (exception: you do not have seperated mountpoints for
> /usr and /var). As far as I know a csh-style shell won't work ever.
>
> Florian