IBM R390 IPL woes... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Jan 2002

...
  It should work, provided you have the license code,
 IPL app, and mainframe
 image installed.  I have a couple of these machines
 myself.

 Peace...  Sridhar

 On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Colin Eby wrote:

  Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:10:00 -0800 (PST)
 From: Colin Eby &lt;out2sea00(a)yahoo.com&gt;
 Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
 To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
 Subject: Re: IBM R390 IPL woes...

 Folks --

 Tomorrow I pick up the IBM 5362. But I have  another
  obscure piece of hardware I'm playing with.
Anyone
 ever hear of an IBM R390. This is an RS/6000 with  an
  SBC mainframe in the MCA. The share IO, but
 nothing
  else. I've been rebuilding this thing as my
UNIX
 workstation at the office. The problem I'm having  is
  getting the mainframe to IPL (of course). This
is
 probably, because -- fool that I am -- I FDISK'd  the
  box and upgraded to AIX5L. Does anyone know if
 there's
  a binary compatibility issue with the mainframe
 board's system files, and the newer AIX binary 
 set? 
Sridhar --

Thanks, for the note. When I wrote this earlier in the
evening, I only had the original disks. After some
considerable web searching I found a reference to the
P390 ftp site. The reference was not I hasten to add,
to be found anywhere on IBM's support pages. The docs
in the ftp site don't specifically endorse AIX5L, but
it did say the system dumps I've been having were
common when upgrading to 4.3.3. And I should therefore
upgrade the r390 binaries I had. Low and behold there
they were on an anonymous FTP server. And shockingly
enough I am now sitting in front of an MVS
installation that no longer system dumps all over me.
Technically it still doesn't IPL, but I'm positively
gleeful anyway. 

Thanks, 
Colin Eby
Senior Consultant
CSC Consulting

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