Re: No joy on the first IPL of the JS12 Blade

And still no joy!

I remembered that I could access a customer's set of downloads for V6R1M0 and so I did download the SLIC I_BASE_01 cd from ESS. It was zipped so I extracted it from the zip file and placed in a folder on my PC. Then I started an FTP session to VIOS, deleted the file that was currently in the /home/padmin folder and then uploaded the file to VIOS.

In IVM I unassigned the existing file to the optical drive and deleted the existing file. Then I added the file I had just uploaded to VIOS (add media) and then I assigned the media to the virtual optical drive. I then activated the partition and once again got the B2006015 LP=002 SRC.

Not sure what's up. There is no "magic" in naming the virtual optical drive or assigning it, is there? For some reason the partition doesn't see the virtual optical drive or treats it as corrupted (although I have used 4 different images so far). Or is it still looking for the physical drive which isn't available? In other words, how does this guy know to look for an optical drive to IPL from? The screen shot here: http://www.petesworkshop.com/images/general_properties.jpg seems to indicate that it should look for an optical device, I just can't figure out why it generates the SRC.

Ideas?

Pete


Pete Helgren wrote:

Hmmm. I used imgburn and ended up with a file of roughly the same size. Interestingly enough, the SRC code changed from B2004158 LP=002 to B2006015 LP=002 which points to a corrupted load source.

No joy on ESS either. Apparently the developer lease folks haven't properly registered the system to our customer ID so I cannot access the IBM i 6.1 downloads for it. So, more hassles in trying to get this stuff taken care of. We just bought SWMA on our 520 and it never got "registered" with support either it took a week to get that sorted out. Apparently the offshoring of this function to Brazil has not gone well.

I wish I could tell if the CD itself was bad. I am going to see if I can get a USB DVD ROM drive to be recognized by the blade as Steve suggested, that way I would know for sure if the CD was bad.

So far, this hasn't been too much fun.....

Pete


Lukas Beeler wrote:

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

See anything out of the ordinary?

My I_BASE_01 ISO is 620MB. Most likely, you created a RAW CD Image,
which includes more information (good for copying copy protected CDs),
but of course can't be read by generic iso interpreters.

I've always used imgburn to deal with ISO images, including creating
them. Never had any issues.

Another alternative would be to download the ISO image directly from IBM ESS.