Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi all,

I successfully installed 5.2 Update4 from CD on a 7028-6C4 last week. After experiencing some network problems I decided that an upgrade to 10 would be the way to go.
All patches were downloaded and installed successfully, but required that I reboot the box. After rebooting the machine hung before even getting to the SMS prompts on E170.

Attaching a serial console I found what appears to be a dump of registers, some memory and a message about stack reading 0xdeadbeef.
Apparently this is a "known problem" that requires a firmware patch. It has something to do with the kernel now being larger than 12Meg.

My first question is "where do I go from here?" and (more out of morbid curiosity than anything else) "why is an upgrade that renders ones system inoperable allowed to install?".

Again, I can't get to the SMS menu to select a different boot device. I can only get to the service processor.

Regards,
John
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

1.) Place call with IBM support. The support folks will come and reset the service processor then update the firmware.

2.) You can open the box and remove the battery for 5 minutes and put it back.This will reset the fimrware and able to boot into SMS menu.from there you can update the firmware or use the nim server or other method to boot machine into lower level of aix maintenace then update the firmware.

Do not try to boot from the updated AIX level without updating the firmware.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thank you Ramanujam .

I will try #2 and let you know.

Regards,
John
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