Re: Front panel issues on E4A

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
> --
> JHHL
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