New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
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New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
It turns out that just next floor there was a nice PowerPC server (and InfoWindow term) that belonged to our department (but it was long forgotten).
I got it, trying to take ownership on it, and have some questions:
How do you open it?
What graphics can it take, it apparently has a graphic card, but will not boot when it's inserted
What was the last AIX that supported it?
Bear in mind, that I'm actually a newbie to AIX/PPC/MCA
I got it, trying to take ownership on it, and have some questions:
How do you open it?
What graphics can it take, it apparently has a graphic card, but will not boot when it's inserted
What was the last AIX that supported it?
Bear in mind, that I'm actually a newbie to AIX/PPC/MCA


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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
Do yourself a favor and run 4.3.3. AIX v5.1 is very slow on the older, lower memory hardware. AIX v3 is very odd. Throughout the v4 series IBM made is much more friendly, though 4.3.3 is the easiest to find software for and the most friendly.
Don't mess with the Java admin tools, either. Go SMIT all the way (until you learn enough about AIX to do it on your own, though even IBM doesn't recommend that).
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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
I might have some RS/6000 parts for MCA era machines.
$5 plus shipping.
Regan
$5 plus shipping.
Regan
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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
OK, opened it, pulled the graphics out of it, will see if it finishes booting, for now no serial console and stops at 517
Last edited by ItsMeOnly on Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:28 am, edited 1 time in total.


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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
ItsMeOnly wrote:OK, opened it, pulled the graphics out of it, will see if it finishes booking, for now no serial console and stops at 517
How long did you wait...? I've had RS/6000 stop at the same check code for what seemed like for ever but it was "normal" for that particular machine... I was doing device driver work on one RS/6000 and it had a 12 minute boot cycle. Even more modern machines stop in the same check code for several minutes..
....debugging by moving the panic() and reading the dump was tedious...
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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
for now, just doing reboot cycles, but will wait - there's an update however: it nicely spit "PROBLEM DETECTED" with BNC connection
Update 2:OK. I suspect now it had some NFS shares that it's unable to mount now, unfortunately I can't get a proper serial console (help appreciated), and the graphics it has installed doesn't show anything (looks like it does at least start booting, because there's a serious disk activity after SCSI being checked).
Update 2:OK. I suspect now it had some NFS shares that it's unable to mount now, unfortunately I can't get a proper serial console (help appreciated), and the graphics it has installed doesn't show anything (looks like it does at least start booting, because there's a serious disk activity after SCSI being checked).


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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
The term you want is "AIX IPL progress codes"
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/ipha6_p5/diag1.htm
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/ipha6_p5/diag1.htm
Code: Select all
517 Mounting client remote file system during network IPL.
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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
porter wrote:The term you want is "AIX IPL progress codes"
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/ipha6_p5/diag1.htmCode: Select all
517 Mounting client remote file system during network IPL.
Yes, that's the first thing I got. The trouble is, without any interaction with AIX there's no telling why does it stop there.


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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
You need to boot into single-user mode and hack the /etc/vfs or equivalent. So it's serial console time, you may need to boot from CD.
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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
ItsMeOnly wrote:I can't get a proper serial console (help appreciated)
porter wrote:You need to boot into single-user mode and hack the /etc/vfs or equivalent. So it's serial console time, you may need to boot from CD.
Shall I write that again or you'll notice?



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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
What does a "non proper serial console look like"? Anything from any serial port? You may have to press "1" or "2" at the serial console keyboard during critical times in the boot for it to switch to it.
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Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
porter wrote:What does a "non proper serial console look like"? Anything from any serial port? You may have to press "1" or "2" at the serial console keyboard during critical times in the boot for it to switch to it.
IME only booting the installation media allows you to select a console at boot time, in that way. If you want to change it on a running system, you have to log in as root and run 'chcons'.












Re: New flower stand! RS/6000-C10 (7009-C10)
Sounds like time for the manual.
If it's getting to 517 I think it must have selected something as a console.
If it's getting to 517 I think it must have selected something as a console.
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