> It should work, provided you have the license code,
> IPL app, and mainframe
> image installed. I have a couple of these machines
> myself.
>
> Peace... Sridhar
>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Colin Eby wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:10:00 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Colin Eby <out2sea00_at_yahoo.com>
> > Reply-To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: Re: IBM R390 IPL woes...
> >
> > Folks --
> >
> > Tomorrow I pick up the IBM 5362. But I have
> another
> > obscure piece of hardware I'm playing with. Anyone
> > ever hear of an IBM R390. This is an RS/6000 with
> an
> > SBC mainframe in the MCA. The share IO, but
> nothing
> > else. I've been rebuilding this thing as my UNIX
> > workstation at the office. The problem I'm having
> is
> > getting the mainframe to IPL (of course). This is
> > probably, because -- fool that I am -- I FDISK'd
> the
> > box and upgraded to AIX5L. Does anyone know if
> there's
> > a binary compatibility issue with the mainframe
> > board's system files, and the newer AIX binary
> set?
Sridhar --
Thanks, for the note. When I wrote this earlier in the
evening, I only had the original disks. After some
considerable web searching I found a reference to the
P390 ftp site. The reference was not I hasten to add,
to be found anywhere on IBM's support pages. The docs
in the ftp site don't specifically endorse AIX5L, but
it did say the system dumps I've been having were
common when upgrading to 4.3.3. And I should therefore
upgrade the r390 binaries I had. Low and behold there
they were on an anonymous FTP server. And shockingly
enough I am now sitting in front of an MVS
installation that no longer system dumps all over me.
Technically it still doesn't IPL, but I'm positively
gleeful anyway.
Thanks,
Colin Eby
Senior Consultant
CSC Consulting
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Received on Tue Jan 15 2002 - 21:12:36 GMT