RE: Joe's V5R1 upgrade (was totally unrelated topic)

[neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I hope you removed and backup tapes before you started the D IPL.  The 
system will read a tape in the alternate IPL device before it looks for 
the CD.  If you have a long backup tape in the system (that does not start 
with a SAVSYS) it could spend an hour or more (depending on tape type and 
amount of data on it) reading the entire tape looking for a file to IPL 
from, before it reaches the end and goes to look at the CD drive.

...Neil





"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
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This is very bizarre.

I did the following:

PWRDWNSYS OPTION(*IMMED) RESTART(*YES) IPLSRC(D)

with my I_BASE_01 disk in the optical drive.  The machine hunkered down 
and
IPLed for a while.  I expected that the next thing I would see would be 
the
Licensed Internal Code - Status display and then the machine would ask for 
a
bunch more disks.

It did not.  Instead, the next thing I saw was a signon screen on the
console.

So I logged on as QSECOFR, and did a WRKACTJOB to see what was up.  I
immediately got an MCH error.  Not a good sign, methinks.

So, now I'm trying to reIPL and see what happens.

The saga continues!

Joe