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  • Intellistation 9111 model 285

    From Foggy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 24 04:27:43 2018
    Hi all,

    I picked up a 9111-285 some time ago for cheap. I have copies of AIX 5.3L, 6.1 and 7.1 ready to install on it. It has graphics card, USB keyboard & mouse.

    The problem is, I cant make the system reliably boot from the optical drive in order to install the OS. I've managed to do it a couple of times but I don't know how. When I explicitly want it to boot from optical, it won't!

    Documentation says to hit F5 when I hear the beeps during initial IPL. Tried this, no joy. Don't think the keyboard is even initialised (no caps lock lights etc).

    I haven't gone to the the lengths yet of hooking up a serial console.

    So - how does this system control it's boot source? is it AS400 style via the front panel, some pre-defined boot order or hitting a key at startup?

    Any wisdom gratefully received!

    ih

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  • From Michael Kraemer@21:1/5 to ihardcas@gmail.com on Sun Jun 24 22:29:26 2018
    In article <24815635-597f-4f4b-a316-070e94d95db7@googlegroups.com>, Foggy <ihardcas@gmail.com> writes:

    So - how does this system control it's boot source? is it AS400 style via the front panel, some pre-defined boot order or hitting a key at startup?

    Any wisdom gratefully received!


    I also own such a monster.
    I had no difficulties to install 7.1.
    Iirc F5 reverts to the default boot list.
    Maybe it's corrupted (dead battery or such).
    I'd press F1 (or "1") on startup and set up a new boot list to include the DVD-ROM as first boot device.

    hth

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  • From Foggy@21:1/5 to Michael Kraemer on Mon Jun 25 06:44:29 2018
    On Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:29:28 UTC+1, Michael Kraemer wrote:
    In article <24815635-597f-4f4b-a316-070e94d95db7@googlegroups.com>, Foggy
    <> writes:

    So - how does this system control it's boot source? is it AS400 style via the
    front panel, some pre-defined boot order or hitting a key at startup?

    Any wisdom gratefully received!


    I also own such a monster.
    I had no difficulties to install 7.1.
    Iirc F5 reverts to the default boot list.
    Maybe it's corrupted (dead battery or such).
    I'd press F1 (or "1") on startup and set up a new boot list to include the DVD-ROM as first boot device.

    hth

    Thanks for the reply.

    The keyboard doesn't even seem to be in a working state (no caps lock light toggle) until pretty much the AIX splash screen comes up - ie well into the boot process from disk.

    The weird thing is that it *sometimes* decides to boot from optical. I have no idea what causes it to do that.

    ih

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  • From Foggy@21:1/5 to Foggy on Mon Jun 25 10:43:02 2018
    On Monday, 25 June 2018 14:44:32 UTC+1, Foggy wrote:
    On Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:29:28 UTC+1, Michael Kraemer wrote:
    In article <24815635-597f-4f4b-a316-070e94d95db7@googlegroups.com>, Foggy
    <> writes:

    So - how does this system control it's boot source? is it AS400 style via the
    front panel, some pre-defined boot order or hitting a key at startup?

    Any wisdom gratefully received!


    I also own such a monster.
    I had no difficulties to install 7.1.
    Iirc F5 reverts to the default boot list.
    Maybe it's corrupted (dead battery or such).
    I'd press F1 (or "1") on startup and set up a new boot list to include the DVD-ROM as first boot device.

    hth

    Thanks for the reply.

    The keyboard doesn't even seem to be in a working state (no caps lock light toggle) until pretty much the AIX splash screen comes up - ie well into the boot process from disk.

    The weird thing is that it *sometimes* decides to boot from optical. I have no idea what causes it to do that.

    ih

    So I did a bit more digging. I connected a console cable up to the thing and it seems that the SMS/service processor was set to output to the serial console rather than the graphics.

    I changed the console setting and now it displays what I've been looking for!

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