fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) (06/04/91)
I need to upgrade an IBM Risc-System 6000/320 from AIX3.1.2 to AIX3.1.5 by
a complete reinstallation of the operating system from exabyte tape (what is
running right now is too badly corrupted). The release notes said that
you had to do this:
bootlist -m service fd rmt badisk scdisk
on any system that already had an operating system installed. I executed
this command, then turned the switch to SERVICE and powered on. The
system indeed tried to boot from tape but gave me a screen full of
** CATALOG ERROR **
messages and nothing else. Now, I can't boot from diskette either -- I get
the same ** CATALOG ERROR ** messages. What hasn't IBM told us in their
release notes? Has anyone else run across the same situation? Thanks. --Timfredrick@acd.uucp (Tim Fredrick) (06/04/91)
In article <11641@ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) writes: >I need to upgrade an IBM Risc-System 6000/320 from AIX3.1.2 to AIX3.1.5 by >a complete reinstallation of the operating system from exabyte tape (what is >running right now is too badly corrupted). The release notes said that >you had to do this: > > bootlist -m service fd rmt badisk scdisk I think I answered my own question. The "** CATALOG ERROR **" messages were coming from the corrupted / filesystem, even though the bootlist command said to search the tape first. I used the following bootlist command which seemed to work: bootlist -m service fd rmt I was able to then boot off of the AIX3.1.5 tape and reinstall the operating system. As far as I can tell, the installation manual and release notes on AIX3.1.5 are in error on this point. Anyone have any further comments? Thanks. --Tim