VIOS LPAR Error 0518


 
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Operating Systems AIX VIOS LPAR Error 0518
# 8  
Old 12-21-2012
5.3 on a CDROM - must be quite old, and I am more convinced that the boot image does not support your more modern software.

So, since CDROM - do you know which year; which oslevel the CD boots as? You could look at the requirements for the POWER server and the AIX level of the CD and know if there is any chance of the CD successfully installing.

And, Happy Holidays!
# 9  
Old 12-22-2012
Just try from 5.3 TL 12 cd. My guess is you are using lower TL cd on power6 or power7 with latest vios.

powerAIX
# 10  
Old 12-25-2012
Happy Holidays everyone,

Okay,

Before I created VIO LPARs , I had 5.3 ML 00 running on the machine on Hdisk0

I installed IBM PowerVM vios on Hdisk1

then created an LPAR_1 == Attachted to this LPAR_1 = HDISK0
booted from LPAR_2 = Everything works fine

Now, created another LPAR ==> LPAR_2
created a virtual disk from disk_pool
attachted the virtual_disk to LPAR_2
attachted the physical CD_ROM to LPAR_2

Booted LPAR_2 in SMS mode
selected install/boot device as CD-ROM and booted from CD-ROM which has the same AIX as HDISK0 which is 5.3 ML 00
but the error occurs

How I attached the virtual disk ?
through web http://vios_server

I cannot put dedicated vscsi because that will need physical SCSI adapters and HMC.

any suggestions ?
# 11  
Old 12-26-2012
I cannot say what the exact problem is, but I must assume that booting via a virtual interface (which is what you are doing using IVM) is not the same as booting from a physical interface. It might have worked with VIOS 1.0 but then there was no IVM.

On POWER5 I can boot from AIX 5.3 TL7, and this should support most/all VIOS 2.2.X versions, but I would assume ML0, what we would now call TL0 will not know enough to proceed with the virtual scsi interface. Linux on Power was a headache for a long time because of issues with booting on virtual disks. Again, I am assuming, i.e., I may be wrong - but I would proceed by making lpar1 a nim server, THEN update to TL12, and nim install lpar2.

This I have been doing for years.

Happy hunting Smilie
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