upgrade firmware

[RMGBELGIUM]

Hi guys,

Yesterday I installed AIX52 ML8 on my 7028-6C4, and when I rebooted the machine didn't feel much like booting, stopping at led E170 for about 30 minutes, and finally giving me a B11B4661 led and some kind of prompt for debugging or so.
Seems that my firmware isn't up to date.Now I got the latest firmware file from the IBM site, and instructions on how to upgrade.They state that the file should be placed in a folder /tmp/fwupdate or either on diskette.Now te following problem arises :
1. system doesn't boot,so no rootvg available
2. No diskette drive on my system,only cdrom

anybody experience such a problem before? suggestions are welcome !

thx in advance

rgds,

R.

 

[p5wizard]

Can you boot it from mksysb? Then reinstall from mksysb to lower level and upgrade firmware from /tmp/fwupdate before you attempt another AIX upgrade.

Or if you have other disks, install an mksysb or fresh install 5200-04 or sth. on those disks and try to boot it from there. That way, afterwards you won't have to re-upgrade, simply reboot with an updated bootlist, or by selecting the correct boot disk from SMS menu.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[DukeSSD]

From the service guide b1xx 4661 is a memory problem.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...bm.pseries.doc/hardware_docs/p630_6c4_6e4.htm

Try burning a diag cd and testing the system first.

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/diags/download/home.html

As for updating the firmware you might be able to boot a mksysb or an earlier AIX install cd, take the recovery option to start a shell and import vg / mount FS then copy the firmware to /tmp/fwupdate from a cd or tape, then do the update.

Or you could buy a floppy - from the parts section of the service guide (and a quick google) it seems the drive is the same as a netfinity 5000 so is probably just a normal drive but they also list a carrier and a power cable that may be system specific.

good luck.

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

Just found the problem together with IBM.upgrade to ML8 has corrupted AIX,which messed up the NVRAM of the system.
Only way to fix it : reinstall ...
IBM claims the problem is related to firmware,but that wasn't the deal.Reinstalled the system with an mksysb of ML6 , in combination with the baseinstall cd of ML8, without the firmware upgrade.System booted as expected.Just to make sure I upgraded the firmware anyway afterwards.IBM had advised us to upgrade to ML8 to prevent jfs2log corruption....How ironic...

thx for all the help though ! much appreciated !

rgds,

R.