That was it. I now have a manually mirrored boot sector, a software raid mirror for root and the rest of my logical volumes - AND IT BOOTS! So, couple more questions: what did deleting the firmware_status.chrp file do for me? Why doesn't OSS 10 do as good a job at this as 9 ES does? And finally, is it safe to tell SMS to boot to that first partition on drive? Once again, thanks for putting up with me, tomorrow when I get back in the office I'll try to put all of this together as best I can and, if possible, blend it with what you already had. I believe IBM is selling this 710 as a linux box (in fact, you CAN'T install AIX on this box - tells you your not licensed for it) so there might be more and more people trying to get it to work and not use one of the commercial distributions you usually get with the box (RHES in our case). On 12/15/05, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, Brian Loe wrote:
Well, I'm right back where I was except that I know how to get the system back (although crippled due to kernel updates) and I have an idea of what is supposed to work:
arg-ns02n:~ # lilo running on chrp Boot target is /dev/sda ERROR: show_of_path.sh returned error 1 while analysing path /etc/yaboot.conf ERROR: show_of_path.sh returned error 1 while analysing path /boot/vmlinux ERROR: show_of_path.sh returned error 1 while analysing path /boot/initrd ERROR: Unknown IBM machine IBM,9123-710/SF235_160.
rm /lib/lilo/chrp/firmware_status.chrp lilo
this should fix it.
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