Power 8 Installation Issue

Hi guys

I am currently doing a build of a new test system for a customer and having
a few hiccups along the way.

The machine I am using is a new Power 8 S824 6. It has a TS2900 tape
library with HH LTO6 attached to a 57B4 SAS adapter. It is intended to run
the IBM i Operating system (no VIOS)

The problems I am having are around getting the tape drive visible. It is
not supported as an ALT-IPL device as far as I can tell from the IBM docs.

That's OK, I half expected that and have a V7R1 DVD to boot from which
according to me is resave level RS-710-N so V7R1 TR10. Despite that I can't
seem to get the tape library visible as an alternate installation device
either after booting from DVD.

The library is currently set to sequential mode as an autoloader.

I have an option 21 save from the customer test system and at this point
what I am thinking about doing is installing LIC form the DVD and then
installing Base OS from DVD as well. After that I will do the rest of the
recovery from Tape and then go back and reload/re-apply all the PTFs.

Anybody got any other suggestions as to what I missed or what I can try ?

If the config is not quite supported that's OK, I'd just like to know
that;s the case (haven't been able to track down a definitive IBM doc as
yet) - I didn't do the config I just got sent out to make it work....