From: Jan (jandersen@INFORMATICA.COM)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 04:33:43 EST
Thanks everyone!
I knew it would be simple. The thing is - I have never had to reboot in
the 3 years I've been here. This is great, of course, but it doesn't
give much experience with the mechanincs of rebooting.
/jan
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 16:55, John Jolet wrote:
> sorry, there's an easier way. just issue the "halt" command. then hit enter
> with the machine off. you should get to the service processor menu then, and
> there should be a boot to service mode option from those menues.
>
> On Friday 23 January 2004 10:30 am, you wrote:
> > 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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