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  • 1.  Boot from CD-ROM

    Posted Wed April 19, 2006 11:10 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Hi all,

    Does anyone knows why i can't boot from my device cd-rom even though i have done bootlist -m normal hdisk1 cd0 ?
    Thanks in advance


  • 2.  Re: Boot from CD-ROM

    Posted Wed April 19, 2006 04:28 PM

    Originally posted by: VirtualGreg


    My best guess is because you keep booting off of hdisk1. Assuming you have half ways modern hardware, there is no need to change the boot list, you can just go into SMS menus and select the CD as your boot device. Otherwise, you had better put cd0 first in the boot list when you issue the command.


  • 3.  Re: Boot from CD-ROM

    Posted Thu April 20, 2006 04:24 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Ok there's nothing to do!
    with the SMS Menus , i'm blocked with an admin password (that's what i say in my post Installation Linux on pSeries)
    With the boolist even with the cd0 on the 1st position, it doesn't boot with the CD-Rom!

    Maybe, the CD is not OK ? what can i verify ? an boot CD must have something like 'imagexxx' ?


  • 4.  Re: Boot from CD-ROM

    Posted Thu April 20, 2006 09:16 AM

    Originally posted by: VirtualGreg


    I'd suggest you contact IBM SupportLine if nobody in your organization knows the passwords to access your systems firmware menus. They should be able to help you get that machine back to it's factory default state in which the admin password is simply admin.


  • 5.  Re: Boot from CD-ROM

    Posted Thu April 20, 2006 05:13 AM

    Originally posted by: MimiX


    take a look at cd's firmware, probably yu must upgrade it and then yuo can boot from.

    In the past i resolved, with firmware upgrade, the same problem when i try to install AIX 5.2 on old B80 box that fail with boot from cd.

    MimiX