Re: V5R3 - PTF and link loader problem - IPL B hangs at B6000901

Thanks for the links,

comments inline :

Harvell, Joel schrieb:

Sorry to hear about your trouble.  There were several PTFs with C6045530
that needed to be applied before you tried to apply the rest of the CUM.


Check this document here...

http://www-i12.ibm.com/s_dir/sline003.nsf/2d3aff1c6b4d6ce086256453000d97

1e/e29f562e9622d12e862571160076df29?OpenDocument

So I should have been on the winning side ...

You also may want to check this document.

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/sline003.nsf/2d3aff1c6b4d6ce086256453000d97
1e/a85cddc318dbf27286256f23006e66f1?OpenDocument

Hope this helps

to install the cumulative package ?

Joel B. Harvell

Food Lion, LLC
(704) 633-8250 x2709
jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philipp Rusch
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 7:41 AM
To: Midrange List
Subject: V5R3 - PTF and link loader problem - IPL B hangs at B6000901

Hi all,

Sorry, long post, complicated story.

We upgraded from V5R2 to V5R3 two weeks ago, installed some pre-installation PTFs (mainly needed for accepting license agreements ...), that went pretty smooth. V5R3 - just to explain our situation - is the last release being supported for our 720. When we came to install the cumulative PTF package C6045530 we ordered with the upgrade, that one loaded and went down for the IPL to apply those microcode-fixes included in the package. There were NO special instructions in the coverletter.

System came up and went through some SRCs, then it powered down itself.
Strange! We started again from panel - IPL from B-N.
System took a while, then SRC B6000901.

OK, we started from IPL-A-N, system runs and shows lots of PTFs in "not applied"

status for 5722999 and 5722SS1.
Sitting on the A-side now, we are not able to aplly microcode PTFs.

I decided o install the LIC from CD again. Now I was able to start from IPL-B-N. Now I had a system with nearly no PTFs on 5722999, but still those lots on 5722SS1. When trying to apply PTF manually, one after each other, or even to remove them,

we get "link loader errors" and nothing else happens.
I tried to install the cumulative PTF-Package C5209530, but this fails.

I know there is some module in the PTF list for the microcode which has to be removed,

but how ?
Friday I reinstalled both , the LIC and SS1, and then started with
C5209530.
This failed with a long list of SS1-PTFs (ca. 50 in "not applied"
state).

I could manage to get the dependant microcode PTFs via iPTF, then manually applied

them and re-IPLed from B-N, this time it came up OK.
Now I was thinking that installing C6101530 was ok, which we received in

the meantime
since our first installation of V5R3.
No Luck !  I am in the same status as before now : SRC B6000901
So we run from A-side at the moment ...

What the heck am I missing here ?

Any hint welcome, regards from Germany,
Philipp Rusch