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Can you recover rootvg without media or NIM?
A colleague in another country had an AIX logical partition that went down and couldn't boot. He asked how he could boot it without media. It was a development logical partition. I knew nothing at all of the environment, and had no possibility of access to it myself, so I found out the following pertinent facts: there was an HMC there was no Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) there was a NIM server but it was at a lower level than the AIX host that couldn't boot they had a mksysb backup which was in a file system on a different AIX host So how would... [More]
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Boot hangs with error 0551 or "Starting kernel"
After restoring a mksysb to a new logical partition the reboot hung with the AIX IPL progress code "0551" "IPL Vary-on is running." After trying slight variations in the profile the boot process hung at "Starting kernel". The rootvg couldn't be varied on, and I didn't know why. The solution was simple, as you'll see. Troubleshooting the boot As part of the troubleshooting process, I booted the logical partition off the AIX Product Media. I was able to Access the root volume group, and recreate the boot image using... [More]
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