How can I boot my 320 off of an IBM distribution tape?
Tim Fredrick
fredrick at acd.acd.ucar.edu
Tue Jun 4 07:23:34 AEST 1991
I need to upgrade an IBM Risc-System 6000/320 from AIX3.1.2 to AIX3.1.5 by
a complete reinstallation of the operating system from exabyte tape (what is
running right now is too badly corrupted). The release notes said that
you had to do this:
bootlist -m service fd rmt badisk scdisk
on any system that already had an operating system installed. I executed
this command, then turned the switch to SERVICE and powered on. The
system indeed tried to boot from tape but gave me a screen full of
** CATALOG ERROR **
messages and nothing else. Now, I can't boot from diskette either -- I get
the same ** CATALOG ERROR ** messages. What hasn't IBM told us in their
release notes? Has anyone else run across the same situation? Thanks. --Tim
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