Re: HMC - upgrade

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The intermediate levels are only needed if doing an upgrade (e.g. 7.7.7 
to 7.7.9 to 8.8.2 to 8.8.4 etc.)  If you are loading bare metal as Chris 
did all those other steps are skipped. (And I think that's the point!)

Chris I think I would try another media and if that fails open a problem 
with IBM.

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On 5/17/2017 6:21 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:
> Chris, here is a matrix chart.  From what I am reading, you need to go to
> an intermediate release before going to V8.
>
> https://www-304.ibm.com/support/customercare/sas/f/power5cm/supportedcodeHMCHW.html
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1024956
>
> Check your firmware levels as well.
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Christopher Bipes <
> chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have a 7042-CR6 that WAS running 7.7.3 or their about.
> >
> > I put in a recovery disk for 8.840 and booted.  Wiped the current system
> > and performed an install.
> >
> > It errored out after about 30 minutes and went to the command line.
> >
> > Tried a second time and received the same results.
> >
> > Now booting off of a 7.790 DVD and it appears to be going.
> >
> > I totally expected to build the HMC from scratch and I did document the
> > networking and passwords.
> >
> > Do you think my media was bad?  Should I re-download the ISO images for
> > V8.840 and burn a new DVD?
> >
> > Chris Bipes
> > Director of Information Services
> > CrossCheck, Inc.
> >
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