Power5 9111-520 reload of AIX 6.1 - help needed


 
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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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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) systemd 237 SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)