Re: 64 Bit Kernel

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 12:13:58 EDT


yeah, that's what they mean...ipldevice would be whichever hdisk you
want to boot from....

Darryl Ousterhout wrote:

>We'll be changing to a 64-bit kernel for Oracle 9.2 soon. I recieved
>some instructions from IBM and was just wondering about the 'ipldevice'
>after the bosboot command. Does anyone know what this does? I'm used to
>setting the boot image to a hdisk.
>
>Here are the instructions:
>
>To truly change the kernel to 64-bit, you need to be at the 5.1 or 5.2
>oslevel.
>
>From 32-bit to 64-bit:
>
>ln -sf /usr/lib/boot/unix_64 /unix
>ln -sf /usr/lib/boot/unix_64 /usr/lib/boot/unix
>lslv -m hd5
>bosboot -ad /dev/ipldevice
>
>shutdown -Fr
>
>
>Regards,
>-Darryl
>
>



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