RE: iSeries LPAR Issues

C200 31FF is the code when its looking for a load source.

When you create partitions, you tell the HMC which cards are to be assigned
to which partition, and you also tell them if they are desired (meaning I
would like to have them, if I can't I will still come up), and required
(meaning they had better be available otherwise I am not coming up). I
would ask you have you looked at the profiles, and validated that all the
cards it wants are in the location it is looking for them in.

Also, if you had 2 partitions, and now you just put all the hardware (cards
and disks) into one partition to try and bring that up, you would have 2
load sources.

I would make sure the cards are in the locations that the profiles expect
them to be. Did they put all the disks back where they got them, or did
they just put them any old place?

Do you have the original System Plans? That were used to create this system?

I would probably gotten the Tar and Feathers out when I had heard this, and
made sure both the Teacher and his students understood the meaning of tar
and feathers as they walked around campus looking like ugly chickens.

Pete

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Seymour, Kevin
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:27 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: iSeries LPAR Issues

Hello,

I am brand new to this list and am seeking some guidance. We have a System
i 520 where I work. It was recently upgraded to V5R4 successfully by
another faculty member and a few of his students about two months ago. They
also upgraded our HMC to the newest version at the time, although I don't
remember what version it was. The reason for this was to hopefully LPAR the
machine into one with the i5 OS and the other with some Linux variant. For
about a month now they have not been able to get the i5 OS partition to
boot, I have no idea what they did to it. They were fiddling around with
the LPARs to try to get the machine divided in two which I believe they were
able to accomplish. Some time between then and now it broke on them. For
some reason they thought it was a hardware problem since no one admitted to
doing anything to the system that would have caused it such hurt. They,
make sure you're sitting, took it apart and started to pop out whatever
batteries and the lik
e they could find to make sure there wasn't any dead whatevers in there.
Yes, they had no idea what they were doing, but figured it was a good idea.
No, I wasn't there... God knows what other pieces they might have poped out
and stuck back in during this process. Now when you boot the machine the
time is wrong and the LPAR that was once working and configured correctly is
not longer there in the HMC, like removing the batteries lost the settings.
I'm not even sure that's on the disks in the iSeries anymore because I can't
get into it. It's at the point now where I've tried to help them seeing as
I used to deal with the machine quite a bit. We've created a new LPAR and
told it to use all the machine's resources. I'm not sure if we pointed it
to the correct "boot device", because I've never had to do that before, but
it seems like it trys to boot from anywhere it can anyways. It gets to a
point where it cycles through about seven codes when trying to start that
partit
ion. I remember one being C200 31FF i think, the rest went by too fast or
escape me at the moment. I'm not sure if they backed up the system or the
HMC after they successfully upgraded it, or if that would even help at this
point. I'm looking for suggestions and can offer up whatever other
information might help. I understand this is a lot of information on a
broad question, but I did the best I could to keep it reasonable...

Thanks,

Kevin