Again, I am not looking for a DOD rated wipe.
I am preparing my last Power 6 for lease return. I have all the IBM i
disk initialized. But I have some in here that is labeled pSeries disk
(down to the labels on the drives themselves). These were used by my Suse
Linux lpar. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 installation program v3.3.91
(aka SLES 11).
I had a thread going at DeveloperWorks at
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=8f6fff74-1be6-486f-8a21-f6ab5d790bcc
but something went haywire there and my posts are marked as spam now. I
suspect the words "for sale" in the subject line.
I did the following:
Used the HMC to set the partition profile settings to boot to SMS.
I also changed the partition properties boot keylock position to Manual.
Then I said to activate the profile, using the advanced button to ensure
that it was set to Manual and SMS. I also told it to open up a terminal
window or console session.
At this menu:
Version EL350_149
SMS 1.7 (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000,2008 All rights reserved.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Main Menu
1. Select Language
2. Setup Remote IPL (Initial Program Load)
3. Change SCSI Settings
4. Select Console
5. Select Boot Options
I took
5. Select Boot Options
At this menu:
Multiboot
1. Select Install/Boot Device
2. Configure Boot Device Order
3. Multiboot Startup <OFF>
4. SAN Zoning Support
I took
1. Select Install/Boot Device
At this menu:
Select Device Type
1. Diskette
2. Tape
3. CD/DVD
4. IDE
5. Hard Drive
6. Network
7. List all Devices
I took
7. List all Devices
When presented with these choices:
Select Device
Device Current Device
Number Position Name
1. 1 SCSI CD-ROM
( loc=U0588.001.012EF8C-CB1-C14-T1-L1-L0 )
2. 2 SCSI 1463 GB Harddisk
( loc=U0595.001.13230A8-CB1-C01-T5-L0-L0 )
I selected the first, the SCSI CD-ROM.
From this menu:
Select Task
SCSI CD-ROM
( loc=U0588.001.012EF8C-CB1-C14-T1-L1-L0 )
1. Information
2. Normal Mode Boot
3. Service Mode Boot
I selected:
3. Service Mode Boot
When presented with:
Are you sure you want to exit System Management Services?
1. Yes
2. No
I selected
1. Yes
When presented with:
Welcome to SuSE Linux Enterprise 11!
Type "install" to start the YaST installer on this CD/DVD
Type "slp" to start the YaST install via network
Type "rescue" to start the rescue system on this CD/DVD
Welcome to yaboot version r22.8-r1190.SuSE
booted from
'/pci@800000020000120/pci@2,4/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/sd@1,0:1,\suseboot\ya
boot.ibm'
running with firmware 'IBM,EL350_149' on model 'IBM,8203-E4A', serial
'IBM,0210813C5'
, partition 'deletemeLinux'
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot:
In entered in rescue.
After quite some time I was given this menu:
Main Menu
1) Start Installation
2) Settings
3) Expert
4) Exit or Reboot
Last time I tried 3) Expert. I could use ls to list files and whatnot.
However I couldn't use fdisk as it kept telling me it wasn't found. Tried
changing into various directories but I couldn't find it.
Any suggestions?
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
