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Operating Systems AIX AIX 5.3 migration gone bad Post 302364341 by jhall on Thursday 22nd of October 2009 07:03:35 PM
Old 10-22-2009
Wrench

Hi all,

After unsuccessfully trying the migration again, I finally called IBM. The error code "4BA00830" means that the system cannot find a valid boot image. I tried going into maintenance mode and creating a boot image and got an error stating that it could not create the boot image.

After a long time on the phone with IBM, the errors are finally resolved. It turns out that someone had deleted several groups from the /etc/groups file, some of which are required by AIX. Some of the ones deleted included: sys, security, and mail. The installation of several key filesets failed because these groups were not present.

What finally fixed the issues was to run "lppchk -l" and install the missing filesets, resolving any issues with prerequisites along the way. While trying to install many of the filesets, we got errors about the missing groups, so we created the missing groups and re-ran the installation of those filesets.

Thanks again for your suggestions!

edit by bakunin: many thanks for writing this follow-up. While it should be the obvious thing to do to give back to the community (a solution) after having taken from the community (the time and effort to help solving the problem) it is only rarely done.

This is why i have nominated this post for "post of the week".

Last edited by bakunin; 10-23-2009 at 06:41 AM..
 

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GRUB-MKRESCUE(3)					     Library Functions Manual						  GRUB-MKRESCUE(3)

NAME
grub-mkrescue -- Generate a GRUB rescue image using GNU Xorriso. SYNOPSIS
grub-mkrescue [-o | --output=FILE] [--modules=MODULES] [--install-modules=MODULES] [--themes=THEMES] [--fonts=FONTS] [--locales=LOCALES] [--compress[=no,xz,gz,lzo]] [-d | --directory=DIR] [--grub-mkimage=FILE] [--rom-directory=DIR] [--xorriso=FILE] [--grub-glue-efi=FILE] [--grub-render-label=FILE] [--label-font=FILE] [--label-color=COLOR] [--label-bgcolor=FILE] [--product-name=STRING] [--product-version=STRING] [--sparc-boot] [--arcs-boot] DESCRIPTION
grub-mkrescue can be used to generate a rescue image with the GRUB bootloader. OPTIONS
--output=FILE Write the generated file to FILE. The default is to write to standard output. --modules=MODULES Pre-load modules specified by MODULES. --install-modules=MODULES Install only MODULES and their dependencies. The default is to install all available modules. --themes=THEMES Install THEMES. The default is to install the starfield theme, if available. --fonts=FONTS Install FONTS. The default is to install the unicode font. --locales=LOCALES Install only locales listed in LOCALES. The default is to install all available locales. --compress[=no,xz,gz,lzo] Compress GRUB files using the specified compression algorithm. --directory=DIR Use images and modules in DIR. --grub-mkimage=FILE Use FILE as grub-mkimage(1). The default is /usr/bin/grub-mkimage. --rom-directory=DIR Save ROM images in DIR. --xorriso=FILE Use FILE as xorriso. --grub-glue-efi=FILE Use FILE as grub-glue-efi(3). --grub-render-label=FILE Use FILE as grub-render-label(3). --label-font=FILE Use FILE as the font file for generated labels. --label-color=COLOR Use COLOR as the color for generated labels. --label-bgcolor=COLOR Use COLOR as the background color for generated labels. --product-name=STRING Use STRING as the product name in generated labels. --product-version=STRING Use STRING as the product version in generated labels. --sparc-boot Enable booting the SPARC platform. This disables HFS+, APM, ARCS, and "boot as disk image" on the i386-pc target platform. --arcs-boot Enable ARCS booting. This is typically for big-endian MIPS machines, and disables HFS+, APM, sparc64, and "boot as disk image" on the i386-pc target platform. -- All options after a -- will be passed directly to xorriso's command line when generating the image. SEE ALSO
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