04-25-2016
Power5 9111-520 reload of AIX 6.1 - help needed
Hello all, I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.
We had a machine running AIX 6.1 that someone completely corrupted, so we decided to re-load it from media. I was able to boot into DVD media, select options for complete (destructive) install, AIX standard, etc. The installation seemed to go well. Toward the end I saw a failure screen flash by which seemed to indicate trouble loading file sets for various PCI and USB devices, however the installation seemed to complete and reboot the system.
When the system boots, the graphical console (vga and usb keyboard) only displays the textual AIX welcome screen and then appears to go unresponsive. I was expecting at some point to see the initial AIX setup. Service console and serial ports don't seem to respond to anything either.
There is some evidence that this machine was once configured to be managed by an HMC server ... but that server has gone defunct and not available at this time.
Any advice? I am open to just about anything ...
Thanks
Last edited by RudiC; 04-26-2016 at 02:49 AM..
Reason: Corrected title that had the post's first sentence in it.
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NAME
install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system
SYNOPSIS
install-solaris
install-solaris invokes the Solaris Install program. Depending on graphical capability and available memory at the time of invocation,
install-solaris invokes either a text-based installer or a graphical installer.
The following minimum requirements for physical memory dictate which features are available during installation:
For SPARC machines:
128 MB
Minimum physical memory for all installation types
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Minimum physical memory required for windowing system
384 MB
Minimum physical memory required for graphical-based installation
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Minimum physical memory for all installation types
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512 MB
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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