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Operating Systems AIX AIX 5.1 Box not booting Post 302444999 by jcompguru on Friday 13th of August 2010 11:26:21 AM
Old 08-13-2010
AIX 5.1 Box not booting
Quick backgound. We just moved the Datacenter. I attempted to boot one of our older AIX machines backup and it stops at a 518 Error code. Which is fine I need to run fsck on the volumes. The issue is I can't find the original media with the appropriate Date that was originally installed(previous admin installed and I'm not sure even which version is installed 5.1 or 5.2). I have put in another AIX 5.1 CD1 and 5.2 CD1 tried to boot off of that into Maintenance Mode. It doesn't do it. Is there another way to run fsck without a mksysb tape or the original CD, or can I make a mksysb tape from another machine? Shouldn't the box be able to boot off any 5.1 CD1 or a 5.2 Cd1 to get maintenance mode. It appears to try and boot off the CD by reading it numerous times, but never goes to the Maintenance Menu after I push 5 at the beep. Any assistance would be appreciated.
 

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bootctl

BOOTCTL(1)                                                            bootctl                                                           BOOTCTL(1)

NAME

       bootctl - Control the firmware and boot manager settings

SYNOPSIS

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] status

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] list

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] update

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] install

       bootctl [OPTIONS...] remove

DESCRIPTION

       bootctl checks, updates, installs or removes the boot loader from the current system.

       bootctl status checks and prints the currently installed versions of the boot loader binaries and all current EFI boot variables.

       bootctl list displays all configured boot loader entries.

       bootctl update updates all installed versions of systemd-boot, if the current version is newer than the version installed in the EFI system
       partition. This also includes the EFI default/fallback loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is
       created if there is no current entry. The created entry will be added to the end of the boot order list.

       bootctl install installs systemd-boot into the EFI system partition. A copy of systemd-boot will be stored as the EFI default/fallback
       loader at /EFI/BOOT/BOOT*.EFI. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is created and added to the top of the boot order list.

       bootctl remove removes all installed versions of systemd-boot from the EFI system partition, and removes systemd-boot from the EFI boot
       variables.

       If no command is passed, status is implied.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
           Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
           Print a short version string and exit.

       --path=
           Path to the EFI System Partition (ESP). If not specified, /efi, /boot, and /boot/efi are checked in turn. It is recommended to mount
           the ESP to /boot, if possible.

       -p, --print-path
           This option modifies the behaviour of status. Just print the path to the EFI System Partition (ESP) to standard output and exit.

       --no-variables
           Do not touch the EFI boot variables.

EXIT STATUS

       On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       Boot loader specification[1] systemd boot loader interface[2]

NOTES

        1. Boot loader specification
           https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec

        2. systemd boot loader interface
           https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/BootLoaderInterface

systemd 237                                                                                                                             BOOTCTL(1)
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