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Operating Systems AIX Booting RS/6000 machines from CD Post 74185 by bakunin on Wednesday 8th of June 2005 08:35:31 AM

06-08-2005

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*sigh*

/digressing_mode_on/
back then, in the good old days of the microchannel bus even booting was far easier than it is nowadays.

Who'd have thought back then, that these days will once be regarded as "good" ones, for chrissakes.
/digressing_mode_off/

Here is what you do: Put a monitor or terminal onto your 43P. Put the CD into the drive and switch on. After the IPL (firmware boot) there will ring a sort-of bell and on your screen will appear symbols for RAM, disk, Keyboard, etc. (LFT monitor) or the respective words "RAM", "disk", ... (terminal).

Press F4 *before* the last of the symbols/words appear and you get into a menu where you can select your installation media, etc. You can follow the instruction on the screen from there.

As an additional caveat I'm not sure if you can install 5.2 on a 43P, you *may* need a POWER-4 processor for 5.2, but I don't know that for sure.

Hope this helps.

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systemd-machine-id-commit.service

SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)                     systemd-machine-id-commit.service                    SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service - Commit a transient machine ID to disk

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service is an early boot service responsible for committing transient /etc/machine-id files to a writable disk
       file system. See machine-id(5) for more information about machine IDs.

       This service is started after local-fs.target in case /etc/machine-id is a mount point of its own (usually from a memory file system such
       as "tmpfs") and /etc is writable. The service will invoke systemd-machine-id-setup --commit, which writes the current transient machine ID
       to disk and unmount the /etc/machine-id file in a race-free manner to ensure that file is always valid and accessible for other processes.
       See systemd-machine-id-setup(1) for details.

       The main use case of this service are systems where /etc/machine-id is read-only and initially not initialized. In this case, the system
       manager will generate a transient machine ID file on a memory file system, and mount it over /etc/machine-id, during the early boot phase.
       This service is then invoked in a later boot phase, as soon as /etc has been remounted writable and the ID may thus be committed to disk to
       make it permanent.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemd-machine-id-setup(1), machine-id(5), systemd-firstboot(1)

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