Re: Front panel issues on E4A

B of course means booting from B-side of the LIC code (the one with the
most PTFs), N means go all the way to OS. V=H is the speed of boot. Hyper
requires a license if i'm not mistaken, unless you need some ultra quick
IPL i would set it at S (slow) so it does all hardware diagnostics (never
hurts). P vs T means Permanent vs Temporal for the FSP code, you usually
want it on T so it boots the lastest firmware.

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:27 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Geeks and Geekettes:

We just had a power failure. And about 20 minutes into the outage, the UPS
started fading fast.

And I ended up doing some groping to find front-panel PWRDWNSYS (I ended
up poking the white power button and squeezing the enter button; it started
showing D-series SRCs, and it was still in progress when the UPS cut out.)

At any rate, while groping around, trying to find front-panel PWRDWNSYS in
the dark, I probably disturbed the function-02 settings. Function-01
currently shows:
01 B N V=H
P

Is that what it SHOULD be? I'm looking at a PDF I downloaded from a Google
search on "ibm i e4a front panel," and "hyperboot" sounds less than
entirely safe. And what is the "P" vs. "T" about?

When the power came back on, the E4A immediately IPL'd itself (I'd have
preferred to wait until the UPS had recovered some runtime). Is that normal?

Also, I've got LAN Console on my WinDoze box. It's up right now, and I've
got a terminal session, but I can't get the virtual front panel to come up.

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JHHL
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