There have been a number of machines that I tried to boot with the Acronis True Image Rescue CD only to find that the booting would hang. What you need to do is press F11 when you are taken to the screen which gives you the screen selection of boot to windows or acronis. A [...]

I wanted to see if I had any failed drives on my HP-UX software raid mirrors. The command to use is. vgdisplay -v To narrow it down you can use vgdisplay -v |grep -i “LV Status” You should see a result of available/syncd if things are okay. available/stale means you got an issue.