Server beeps multiple times on reboot

[paulywog]

I rebooted my RS/6000 server tonight. When it was rebooting it got to the Performing all automatic mounts part, beeped 9 times slowly, paused for a couple of minutes, then beeped 7 times. Can anybody tell me what this means?

 

[bi]

That does sound odd. Did everything mount OK?

Have you looked at errpt and your syslog?

Have you looked at your bootlog?
(alog -o -f /var/adm/ras/bootlog | more)

 

[paulywog]

As I'm just trying to learn AIX, I didn't know about the bootlog. When I look, its telling me its unable to configure some devices because they don't exist or are not in the database. We've got lots of digi portservers and it looks like these are what it is trying to configure. The network is there though when it does reboot and terminals are able to connect through those port servers.

Thanks for the info. I'll follow up with the consultant who set up the server 3 years ago.

 

[bi]

One thing about the bootlog: the default size may be too small to get all the boot logging info in the file. It's a circular file: when it gets to the specified size, it starts writing over at the top of the file. You can increase the size with smit (System Environment/ manage system logs / alog / change show characteristics of an alog file).

Let us know what the problem and solution are.