Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I have a couple LPARs on a JS21 blade created with IVM on the VIOS LPAR. Netbooted, diskless 5300-03 and 5300-07 images correctly report the virtual disk assigned to the LPAR but a 5300-08 image doesn't. The bootlog in the 5300-08 contains the following error:

Method error (/usr/lib/methods/cfg_vclient -2 -l vscsi0 ):
0514-040 Error initializing a device into the kernel.

bash-3.00# oslevel -s
5300-08-01-0819

The 5300-03 (as well as the 5300-07) have the expected output:

attempting to configure device 'vscsi0'
Time: 2 LEDS: 0x25b3
invoking /usr/lib/methods/cfg_vclient -2 -l vscsi0
Number of running methods: 1
---------------- Completed method for: vscsi0, Elapsed time = 0
return code = 0
****************** stdout *********** hdisk0
****************** no stderr ***********
bash-3.00# lsdev -Cc disk
hdisk0 Available Virtual SCSI Disk Drive
bash-3.00# oslevel -s
5300-03-00

Hasn't anybody seen any issues related to vscsi on 5300-08?

Any hint will be appreciated. Thanks

Luis P Caamano
Atlanta, GA USA
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Maybe this is covered by this APAR IZ03143: HDISK CANNOT BE CONFIGURED; FAILS WITH 0514-040

That links to a fix for 5.3.8.0 although the APAR mentions TL5.

Here's more SEARCH results: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&apar=include&q1=0514-040&tc=SWG10&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=all&sort=rk&cc=us

I hope this helps....
Brian
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

That's for the reply. Unfortunately that issue is different as it's related to configuring the disk but the one I'm seeing fails configuring the vscsi0 device, which is the one than enumerates the disks.

The only thing I've found related to not being able to configure vscsi0 on a JS21 LPAR has to do with switching the media tray away from the blade to another blade but I can reproduce the same error without changing the media tray assignment.

I'm thinking that perhaps the upgrade to 5300-08 might not have worked properly, so I'm going to try upgrading another 5300-03 system to TL 08 SP2 and try again.

Thanks
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