Re: QS36F file format error after migrating LPAR

Rob, I'm trying to understand your instructions.

Questions:

1. Am I right that the tape can't be the IPL installation device if it
was made from a P7 and I'm migrating/restoring to a P8?
2. So then can I boot (as I have done many times) from virt opt and get
up to your instruction 13 and proceed from there using your instructions?

13. Work with system security

These values should all be “1”. You may have to change “Allow a service
tool user ID…”.

And even so, is what follows going to work if I'm migrating from P7 to P8?


On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did you notice the quite detailed instructions on how to boot from a DVD
yet do 100% of your install from tape?

Much of this is from the recovery manual. However instead of skipping all
around the darn thing I laid the steps out sequentially in an effort to
ease others.

Keep in mind that I did 15 unload/reloads of IBM i 7.1 from Power 6 to
Power 8 systems following instructions with this snippet as part of them.
And I had coworkers follow them and do them on their own with me out of
the building also.

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From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/09/2018 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: QS36F file format error after migrating LPAR
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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 8:59 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Refresh my memory, did we already talk you through going into SST and
seeing if your tape device is flagged as an alternate installation

device?

And can it also be used as an alternate IPL device?

Thanks for talking, Rob. I think I d'oh suddenly figured it out. The tape
works, it just won't boot. It's a type 21 GO SAVE.

But the source machine is a P7 and the target is P8. There's no way that's
going to work, methinks.

Arrgh. Now I have to figure out how to migrate and fix this system. No
BRMS
restore-the-system report, since it's not done with BRMS.

Is there a magic incantation to reconnect the QS36F files with their data
definitions? My head hurtz ...


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