From: Bob Booth - UIUC (booth@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 11:51:51 EST
Ah, your right Jim, F5 or 5. F1 and 1 were to select the console. My bad.
bob
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:47:29AM -0600, Naylor, Jim wrote:
> When the icons start appearing on you display press the F5 key if it is
> attached to a color monitor or press the 5 key if it is a ascii terminal.
> You will have the option to go into a maintenance mode.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Naylor
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Schnuck Markets, Inc.
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan [mailto:jandersen@INFORMATICA.COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:30 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: A (very) basic question, sorry
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I must admit, I feel rather stupid for asking this, but....
>
> I have two RS/6000s in my keeping and I am writing some simple howtos
> about our systems. For all the other UNIXes I have found docs that
> describe how to boot up in single user mode, and I understand that this
> is called 'service mode' in AIX. But all my docs say 'turn the key to
> *Service*' - which doesn't help a lot since my machines don't have a key
> (that I can see, at least). The HW is 'IBM eServer pSeries 610 Model
> 6C1' - it even looks like the drawing in one of the manuals.
>
> So, how do I do this? I know I can boot from the installation CD, but I
> would like to keep it locked away - and also, I can't imagine that it
> isn't possible, even simple, to do it without.
>
> /jan
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