[ale] Calling All AIX Experts

[Denny Chambers]

Thanks for the info Chris. My goal is to have the RS/6000 machines
normally boot from their local hard drives as their primary boot device.
If that fails, then I wanted the the secondary boot path to be the
network. In which case the system would find my Linux bootp server and
download a Service image that would help in getting the machine backup
and running. I have the bootp server up and running and have tested it.
The images that I have made with bosboot are being pulled down by the
AIX clients from the bootp server but, they seem to hang the system. We
are primarily using RS/6000 43P Model 7043-140. The last led display
that I get is F76. Any help on if this machine is supported, or what F76
means would be extremely helpful.

Thanks,
Denny

Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Denny Chambers wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know how to make a bootable image on AIX 4.3 that I can put on a
> > bootp server?
> 
> bosboot is the command for that; I think you want
> 
> bosboot -ad /dev/ent0 -M both
> 
> (-a for complete image, -d /dev/ent0 to tell it the boot device is ethernet
> 0, -M both so you can boot both normal and service)
> 
> If you're wanting to use the image for doing network installs of the
> machines you boot, then it's more complicated and you need to look into NIM
> (AIX equivalent of Solaris JumpStart / Red Hat KickStart products)
> 
> Note that some models of RS 6K support network boot for install only, so
> depending on what you're wanting this for, it may or may not even be
> possible
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
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> Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
>                                               chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu
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