RE: System i5 first boot

First, look to see how you're supposed to be connected.  Your system is 
configured to use something, probably Op's Console.  You really need to 
RTFM.

Even if you do buy:  twinax card (providing you have a slot for it), 
twinax terminal, twinax cabling, etc, just shoving all this in doesn't 
automatically make this your system console.

And twinax is not the magic bullet some altzeimers seem to think it is. 
I've had a lot of issues with it in the past.  Twinax cards going bad. Bad 
twinax cabling, address conflicts, baluns screwed up, terminals going bad, 
electrical shock from the attaching the cable because the wall plug was 
reversed, repeaters all needing to be replaced because 5250 signal is not 
as strong in an iSeries as it was in an AS/400, and more.

Op's console was problem free for me.
HMC, (now that most of the early ship issues have been worked out) is 
quite reliable now.

Plus, with the newer technologies you can get remote access much easier.

Rob Berendt