Configuring boot device order

device type > bus type > adapter > devices attached to the adapter

By selecting List All Devices from the Select Device Type menu or the Select Media Type menu, you can view all the potentially bootable devices at one time. Disk drives that are not bootable are not listed.

The List All Devices function can take a long time, or may be incomplete on a large system with many I/O adapters and devices, such as large disk arrays. However, the following selection might reduce the overall time required to scan for all of the devices because the scan is restricted to the selected adapter.

device type (for example, hard disk) > interface type (for example, SCSI) > specific adapter

Select the Select Boot Devices option to view and change the customized boot list, which is the sequence of devices read at startup.

 Configure Boot Device Order

 1.  Select 1st Boot Device
 2.  Select 2nd Boot Device
 3.  Select 3rd Boot Device
 4.  Select 4th Boot Device
 5.  Select 5th Boot Device
 6.  Display Current Setting
 7.  Restore Default Setting


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _   

 Select Device Type

 1.  Tape
 2.  CD/DVD
 3.  Hard Drive
 4.  Network
 5.  None
 6.  List all devices

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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _   

By selecting List All Devices option from the Select Device Type menu or the Select Media Type menu, you can view all of the potentially bootable devices at one time. Note that the non-bootable disks are not listed. The List All Devices function can take a long time or may be incomplete on a large system with many I/O adapters and devices, such as large disk arrays. However, the following selection might reduce the overall time required to scan for all of the devices because the scan is restricted to the selected adapter: device type (for example, hard disk) > interface type (for example, SCSI) > specific adapter.

When you select a device type, a Select Media Type menu is displayed that is similar to the following example.

 Select Media Type

 1.  SCSI
 2.  SAN
 3.  SAS
 4.  SATA
 5.  USB
 6.  NVMe
 7.  None
 8.  List All Devices


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _   

For systems with firmware level 910_xxx, or later, if you select the List All Devices option, all the subsystem types present in the partition are scanned for the devices of the selected type. When you select a media type, all adapters of that type are displayed on the Select Media Adapter menu. The following example displays the menu when SCSI is selected as the media type.

Select Media Adapter

1.  U8205.E6D.JI10020-V1-C3-T1 /vdevice/v-scsi@30000003
2.  U8205.E6D.JI10020-V1-C4-T1 /vdevice/v-scsi@30000004
3.  U8205.E6D.JI10020-V1-C8-T1 /vdevice/v-scsi@30000008
4.  None
5.  List all devices

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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _   

You might select each adapter individually to see the bootable devices that are attached to it. For systems with firmware level 910_xxx, or later, if the List All Devices option is selected from this menu, all the devices of the selected type (for example, Hard Drive) that are attached to any adapter of the selected type (for example, SAS or USB) are listed. If no bootable device is attached to the adapter, an error message is displayed. The following example displays the menu when the first SCSI adapter is selected in this menu.

Select    Device
Device    Current    Device 
Number    Position   Name

1           -        SCSI 39 GB Harddisk, part=2 (AIX 7.2.0) 
                     (loc=U8205.E6D.JI10020-V1-C3-T1-L810000000000000)
2.          None


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen          X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _   

When you select a device type, you can view detailed information about the device or set the device location in the boot list from the Select Task menu. Note that the non-bootable disks are not listed. The following example shows the menu when you select Hard disk as the device.

 Select Task

SCSI 39 GB Harddisk, part=2 (AIX 7.2.0) 
(loc=U8205.E6D.JI10020-V1-C3-T1-L810000000000000)
 1.  Information
 2.  Set Boot Sequence: Configure as 1st Boot Device


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen           X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _    

Selecting Information displays a menu similar to the following for a hard disk.

 Device Information
                     : /vdevice/v-scsi@30000003/disk@810000000000000
                     : (Bootable)
DEVICE               : SCSI 39 GB Harddisk, part=2 (AIX 7.2.0) 
                       (loc=U8205.E6D.JI10020-V1-C3-T1-L810000000000000)
NAME                 : disk
DEVICE-TYPE          : block

Parent Information
IBM,FW-ADAPTER-NAME  : Virtual SCSI
NAME                 : v-scsi
DEVICE-TYPE          : vscsi


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen           X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _    

Select the Display Current Settings to display the current setting of the customized boot list.

An example of this menu, with one device in the boot list, follows.

 Current Boot Sequence

1. SCSI 73407 MB Harddisk Un-P1-T14 /pci@80000002000000d/pci@2/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0
2. None
3. None
4. None
5. None


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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen              X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _       

Select the Restore Default Settings option to restore the boot list to the default boot list.