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  • 1.  AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Thu February 10, 2011 11:22 PM

    Originally posted by: alvinsim


    Hi all,

    We have a old Power4 server with AIX version 5.3 installed. Upon boot up, it hangs right after the AIX welcome screen. On the diagnostic load progress LED indicator, I saw that it stopped at '0c32' then after awhile the LED would be blank. The screen on the monitor will hang at the black terminal screen with a not blinking cursor.

    What should I do next? I hope the filesystem is not corrupted fingers crossed.

    Thanks.
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  • 2.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Fri February 11, 2011 07:54 AM

    Originally posted by: tony.evans


    Do you know it's not working? i.e. can you ssh / telnet to it, ping it, etc. or is it not on the network?

    Do you have a console cable you can attach, assuming the screen is connected to a graphics adapter in the machine rather than a console already.
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  • 3.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Sat February 12, 2011 10:03 PM

    Originally posted by: alvinsim


    We can't ping nor telnet/ssh to the server. When we ping, the message was "Destination host not reachable".

    I doubt if we have a console cable lying around. I'd have to look around.
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  • 4.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Sat February 12, 2011 10:05 PM

    Originally posted by: alvinsim


    We can't ping nor telnet/ssh to the server. When we ping, the message was "Destination host not reachable".

    I doubt if we have a console cable lying around. I'd have to look around.
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  • 5.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Sun February 13, 2011 10:26 PM

    Originally posted by: chrissmith


    Hi

    See if you can get some more detailled information per "Capturing Boot Debug" https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1000628

    Cheers Chris
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  • 6.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Mon February 14, 2011 04:17 AM

    Originally posted by: alvinsim


    While I'm trying to boot the AIX 5.3 installation cd to go into maintenance mode, the screen hangs after the welcome banner. And on the LED it is 0c31 now instead of 0c32.
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  • 7.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Mon February 14, 2011 04:37 AM

    Originally posted by: tony.evans


    0c31 means it is probably displaying 'Press <key> to use this as the console' (can't remember the exact phrase) on everything it believes is an attached console (including lft's) and waiting for someone to hit a key.
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  • 8.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Mon February 14, 2011 11:54 AM

    Originally posted by: mmveiga


    Did you try to boot into SMS and then select the option that reads "Select Console" ?

    Marcelo.
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  • 9.  Re: AIX 5.3 Boot Hangs On Power4 Hardware

    Posted Tue February 15, 2011 09:54 PM

    Originally posted by: alvinsim


    Yes I did and managed to select a console. Then it rebooted and beeped again and went back into SMS.
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