RE: "D" IPL requires certain spin of OS?

Thanks to all who replied.

I did find a link that will answer the question - 
http://www-912.ibm.com/e_dir/eserverprereq.nsf

This is the IBM Prerequisite link - if you select the hardware tab and 
enter the information it will come back with search results. Select the 
appropriate results and it will give you all of the OS level requirements 
and their respective Fix Levels.  This includes i5, AIX and Linux, and 
HMC.


Jim 






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Why don't you trust Rochester?  You need a newer version.  I was shipped
RSH (you must have RSE?) with my 570.  Get a newer I_BASE_01 disc and
you'll be fine.  It's reading it and failing because it doesn't have
whatever software is on the newer SLIC CD to boot the POWER5 or POWER5+
system.

Not sure where this is documented, but it is indeed a fact and has
bitten many.

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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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Subject: "D" IPL requires certain spin of OS?

I'm at a customer site where we are trying to do a "D" IPL to the I_BASE

CD and it keeps failing on their 570 but they tell me they were
successful 
on their old 830.  Rochester is suggesting it is because of the spin of 
the V5R3 CD is too old (spin E). 

We tested it on 2 different 570's, witnessed the system reading from the

DVD during the IPL.  We are able to see the CD and do a WRKOPTDIR
without 
issue when the system is up.  The SRC we got was B700 5122 but found
that 
misleading because there isn't anything wrong with the IOP we are
booting 
from (because it is the same as the load source and that works).  So
then 
the ASM shows us B200 8105 suggesting wrong LIC level or corrupted CD.

Has anyone else heard of this?  Do you know where this might be
documented 
on IBM's website or Redbook?

TIA,

Jim