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  • 1.  554 "UNKNOWN BOOTDISK" on LED after 7100-01-01-1141 upgrade

    Posted Mon November 21, 2011 05:10 PM

    Originally posted by: md_guy


    Hi all!
    Hoping we might be able to figure out what's going on here. I've got a 9114-275 with 2GB of memory and a 36GB hard disk. I've ensured that both the system and the hard disk have the latest firmware installed. I then performed a fresh install of AIX 7.1 from a disc with 7100-00-01 on it. (ie, not a preservation install). Install worked fine. Once in the OS, I used SUMA to download 7100-01-01-1141, which is the latest available, then applied it using the update installed software to latest level option. Once that completed, "oslevel -s" reported 7100-01-01-1141, so I rebooted using "shutdown -Fr". Upon reboot, I get 554 "UNKNOWN BOOTDISK" after the kernel starts and I get the AIX bootloader banner on the screen.
    So, next I booted it into service mode off the CD, and used the "access a rootvg" option. Once it tries to spawn a shell, I get messages like the following rapidly scrolling down the screen:

    /etc/getrootfs591: 1245230 Killed

    Once we hit that, I can never get control of the system short of power-cycling it. This is killing me. I've tried this like 5 times using all sorts of combinations of preservation installs and clean installs. No matter what, it just plain won't boot 7100-01-01-1141. Is there something I'm missing, like that hardware support for the 9114-275 was dropped in this release, or am I hitting a bug?

    Many, many thanks in advance!!


  • 2.  Re: 554 "UNKNOWN BOOTDISK" on LED after 7100-01-01-1141 upgrade

    Posted Tue November 22, 2011 12:11 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    theres a doc about possible causes of led 554, good luck
    https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1000132


  • 3.  Re: 554 "UNKNOWN BOOTDISK" on LED after 7100-01-01-1141 upgrade

    Posted Wed November 23, 2011 04:25 PM

    Originally posted by: benhu


    Ok, so I rebuilt it again from 7100-00, then downloaded the 7100-01-00-1140 updates from Fix Central via FTP. Once I applied them using "smitty update_all", "oslevel -s" reports 7100-01-01-1141, which I know won't boot. So, is there some trick I can do to force it to only go to 7100-01-00-0000? (since that shows up as a known pack via "oslevel -qs") I used "smitty reject" to uninstall 7100-01-01-1141.

    As a side thought, I wonder if I could do the 7100-01-01-1141 update, take a mksysb of that, then boot it via NIM and not get the /etc/getrootfs error...

    Anyway, thanks for the tips so far!


  • 4.  Re: 554 "UNKNOWN BOOTDISK" on LED after 7100-01-01-1141 upgrade

    Posted Thu January 19, 2012 03:19 PM

    Originally posted by: md_guy


    Just an update on this...

    I got a DVD with 7100-01-00 on it in a few weeks ago and tried to do a clean install with it on this hardware (9114-275). The DVD won't even boot... gets the same UNKNOWN BOOTDEV" error.

    Anyone have 7100-01 or higher running on a 275, or know if support for 275's was dropped? Or do I have a faulty piece of hardware?

    Thanks!


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