AIX

Hi,

I just bought POWER 8 ESERVER S812L from Ebay. There is no AIX on it.
I am trying to install RedHat on this box
But it does not recognize the hard drive and Ethernet card.

I am very newbie with IBM ... please help or hints me please ...
1. can't access to HMC ports, thought it's 169.254.2/3.147 for HMC1/HMC2. some posts mentioned about using F02 then 30 to find out the IP address if it got changed, but it seems there is nothing in front of panel to do that :-(
2. What do I need to do for the server recognize the Hard drives and Ethernet card?

Thanks a lot!
Lily

1. what do you mean "it does not recognize the hard drive and Ethernet card"? Can you show an error, or what happens, when you try to boot up the server?

2. you don't need an HMC, if you have only this one server.

Hi agent.kgb,

The server is booting up from RedHat 7 DVD, till the configuration parts.
Actually, the NICs are there
But when I select option 6 for installation disk then it fails

Probing storage... ion failed.
Install Destination

No disks detected. Please shut down the

d restart to complete installation.

Do I need to do anything for the server to recognize the disk?

Thanks,
Lily

This is as it should be. The "L" in S812L means the system is sold without a license for AIX and its microcode (that is firmware in IBM-speak) will deny running AIX. You can run anything you might get to run and have the necessary rights to do so: Linux is supported (hence the L), but if you would get, say, FreeBSD to run on your hardware (i doubt you could, but supposing you would) that would be equally OK.

Power systems from IBM are usually sold with a AIX license along. There is a "S812", which is identical to your system save for the limitation of not being allowed to run AIX. It costs a bit more than the S812L, though.

Sorry if this question seems condescending, it isn't: are you sure there are disks in the system? Background is, you could boot the system (at least under AIX - i do not have much experience with Linux on Power) completely from SAN so there are systems out there which have (and need) no disks at all.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

bakunin: We do not run AIX on this server. We are trying to install RedHat Linux Enterprise server 7 on this server.

it has 2 disks on the server. Is there a way to check if the server recognize the disks at boot time or something? (sorry, no clue about IBM servers)

do I need to partition it first? If does, please hint me how?
Never done it before. Thanks.

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I am trying to use IBM Installation Toolkit, got the same error msg "No disks found on the current system"

IBM Installation Toolkit for PowerLinux

Installation settings for the target system [Show instructions]

[X] BRLIW1004E - No disks found on current system.
Settings

Linux distribution [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Update 6)]
Installation profile [Default ] [More info]
Disk partitioning [No disks]
Use driver disk [Yes]

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Yes, there is. Use one of the ports labelled "HMC", they are called "Service processor ports". (A service processor is similar to a ILO board.) There you can connect to the systems ASMI (the closest thing to it on a hardware you probably know is the BIOS on a PC). Here is a description how to get there. You will need a network cable and a computer (laptop/notebook/...) with a web browser and a configurable IP interface.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

connected to HMC2 now. got to ASMI page but don't know where to go for configuring the hard drive.
Please hint me. Thanks.