Gentle readers,

Several years ago I set up a spare HP3000-918LX as a semi-hot site for our
main processor, also an HP3000-918LX.  As much as possible these machines
are identically configured.  Recently I brought this machine back in house
to reconfigure it so as to place its nic on a private RFC1918 address
behind a dual homed Linux box acting as a router and as an SSHD client for
access to this box.

The problem that developed this morning has me perplexed.  I was logged on
to the HP3000 via the console and ran quad.  The console then stopped
accepting input and would not respond to the break request, or to <ctrl> A
(I did not try }<ctrl> B).  However, tape mount messages still displayed. 
As this box was not in production and I really did not want to spend all
day trying to figure out what was wrong between quad and the console I
rebooted the HP via the power switch.

Now the system will not boot!  This is what I see:

------- Main Menu
-------------------------------------------------------------

        Command                       Description
        -------                       -----------

        BOot [PRI|ALT|<path>]         Boot from specified path
        PAth [PRI|ALT] [<path>]       Display or modify a path
        SEArch [DIsplay|IPL] [<path>] Search for boot devices

        COnfiguration menu            Displays or sets boot values
        INformation menu              Displays hardware information
        SERvice menu                  Displays service commands

        DIsplay                       Redisplay the current menu
        HElp [<menu>|<command>]       Display help for menu or command
        RESET                         Restart the system
-------
Main Menu: Enter command or menu > sea

Searching for potential boot device.
This may take several minutes.

To discontinue, press any key.

   Path Number           Device Path              Device Type
   -----------           -----------              -----------
   P0                    56/52.0   (dec)          Seq. record access media
   P1                    56/52.4   (dec)          Random access media
   P2                    56/52.5   (dec)          Random access media


Main Menu: Enter command or menu > bo p1
Interact with IPL (Y or N)?> y

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 4

IPL error: bad LIF magic.

------- Main Menu
-------------------------------------------------------------

        Command                       Description
        -------                       -----------

        BOot [PRI|ALT|<path>]         Boot from specified path
        PAth [PRI|ALT] [<path>]       Display or modify a path
        SEArch [DIsplay|IPL] [<path>] Search for boot devices

        COnfiguration menu            Displays or sets boot values
        INformation menu              Displays hardware information
        SERvice menu                  Displays service commands

        DIsplay                       Redisplay the current menu
        HElp [<menu>|<command>]       Display help for menu or command
        RESET                         Restart the system
-------
Main Menu: Enter command or menu >


Can someone enlighten me as to what has happened or what step my faulty
memory has caused me to skip?

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