How To
Summary
Learn how to create a bootable USB drive for AIX/VIOS.
Steps
Make a bootable USB as follows:
- Plug the USB to the CEC.
- On the server to which the USB adapter is attached to , run cfgmgr. Since all the appropriate filesets are installed for USB, the cfgmgr command will configure the USB device.
- Check to see if the USB device is visible:
ls /dev/usbms*
You should see all the configured USB devices.
- Write the iso image by using dd as follows:
dd if=<cd_iso_image> of=/dev/usbms0 bs=4096
Note: The image to be written to the USB device will have "Flash" in its image name.
The following is an example of the image that can be written to the USB drive:
Virtual_IO_Server_Base_Install_3.1.0.10_Flash_112018.iso
- Once the dd completes successfully, you can mount the USB drive as "read only".
Example: "Mount USB Drive usbms0 as Read Only on mount point USBDRIVE."
# mount -r -vudfs /dev/usbms0 /USBDRIVE
Next, you cancdto that mount point and generate a long listing of the files in that directory, which would look similar to the following:
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 5565 Sep 04 17:27 bosinst.data
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 11280 Sep 04 17:30 image.data
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 lost+found
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 installp
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 udi
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 RPMS
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 ismp
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 root
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 sbin
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 28 Sep 04 17:54 OSLEVEL
dr-xr-xr-x 8 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:54 usr
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 60 Sep 04 17:54 mkcd.data
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 30 Sep 04 17:54 .Version
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 217 Sep 04 17:55 README.vios
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:55 nimol
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root system 2048 Sep 04 17:56 ppc
Note: If you don't see multiple directories similar to the preceding list, and only see a .iso file, the iso image was not written to the drive, it was copied to the drive.
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Modified date:
12 November 2019
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