From: Patrick B. O'Brien (pobrien@DOIT.NV.GOV)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 01:53:30 EST
Have you tried manipulating the boot list within diag?
-----Original Message-----
From: pSeries AIX Geek [mailto:aixgeek@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:30 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: FW: Problems setting bootlist.
Can you clear it with "bootlist -m normal -i" and then
reset it?
--- Bruce Zimmer <b.r.zimmer@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote:
> I have a system that I am unable to set
> the boot list on,
> Let me give you the details.
>
>
>
> The system is a 7025-6f1 running 4.3.3
> ML9. System has 10
> SSA disks and rootvg is comprised of pdisk0 -->
> hdisk0 and pdisk9 -->
> hdisk5 and is mirrored through the LVM. Earlier
> this week, pdisk0
> (hdisk0) went south and we needed to have it
> replaced. The first thing
> that I did was to attempt a bosboot to hdisk5 which
> failed. As a
> precaution, I then instructed the customer to not
> allow IBM to reboot
> the machine when they replaced the drive. I
> proceeded to break the
> mirrors, and reducevg rootvg. I was then able to
> successfully do the
> bosboot and then I changed the bootlist to remove
> hdisk0. IBM came in
> and replaced the drive (the Service tech rmdev'd and
> cfgmgr so the new
> disk still was pdisk0 --> hdisk0) I got back in and
> remirrored the drive
> performed the bosboot and savebase to hdisk0 then
> attempted to add
> hdisk0 back into the bootlist and I got the
> following error.
>
>
>
> 0514-221 bootlist: Unable to
> make boot device
> list for hdisk0
>
>
>
> The system still has not been rebooted,
> I would like to
> resolve this before a boot is attempted. Does
> anyone recognize this
> problem? Does this have anything to do with not
> having rebooted?
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