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Operating Systems AIX Repair boot sector after stupidly importing disk into vg? Post 302190071 by selzeda on Monday 28th of April 2008 04:34:10 PM
Old 04-28-2008
Thanks a lot for your informative answer, even if I now know that I'm screwed completely ;-)

Smitty is my tool of choice since the first boot of AIX, without it I would not have known how to replace ksh with my beloved bash.

BTW: is it rather normal for the RS/6000 Hardware to need about 5 minutes after powering on to get to the OpenFirmware prompt? A lot of 4-digit codes change on the led while booting so I think thats quite usual...

Greets, David
 

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UDISKSD(8)							   System Daemon							UDISKSD(8)

NAME
udisksd - The udisks system daemon SYNOPSIS
udisksd [--help] [--replace] [--no-debug] [--no-sigint] DESCRIPTION
The udisksd program provides the org.freedesktop.UDisks2 name on the system message bus. Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) or systemd(1) whenever an application tries to access its D-Bus interfaces. See the udisks(8) man page for more information. OPTIONS
--help Show help options. --replace Replace existing daemon. --no-debug Do not print debug or informational messages on stdout/stderr. --no-sigint Do not handle SIGINT for controlled shutdown. AUTHOR
Written by David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> with a lot of help from many others. BUGS
Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks. SEE ALSO
udisks(8), udisksctl(1), umount.udisks2(8), polkit(8), dbus-daemon(1), systemd(1) udisks 2.1.2 March 2013 UDISKSD(8)
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