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

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You should be in Normal mode when staring a release upgrade.

...Neil





"Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@G1.com>
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Don't you need to be in manual mode? Sounds like you came up in normal.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:33 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Joe's V5R1 upgrade (was totally unrelated topic)
> 
> 
> 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