10-06-2008
won't mount /usr...won't boot fully
Hello:
NOOB here. I attempted to use smit mkcd. Failed on first attempt, not enough space. 2nd attempt tried to place iso on /usr, not enough space there. Cleanup ran for about 5 minutes after aborting. Now AIX won't boot. LCD display on 7029-6E3 says: 0517 MOUNT /USR. Attempted to boot from CD AIX 5L POWER V 5.2 5765-E62 Volume 1 of 7 disk with no luck.
Apparently I'm supposed to hit F5 on keyboard when I see the word keyboard on the boot screen. It goes too fast and always boots to AIX screen:
STARTING SOFTWARE PLEASE WAIT...
----------------
Welcome to AIX
boot image timestamp: 15:32
bla
bla
bla
closing stdin and stdout...
----------------------
The drive in the machine is a DVD drive. All I want to do is boot into maintenace mode so I can hopefully clean up the /USR fs and get back up and running.
Can some please comment on the errors of my ways and point me in the right direction please?!?
Thanks.
Bill
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