Re: HMC Upgrade and the Magic Key

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds exactly my experience a few weeks ago.  I was doing an 
upgrade with media I burned myself (V7.7.80).

Working with IBM confirmed that I should have received an "insert next 
disk" prompt.  Instead it dropped me out to a shell.  There was nothing 
to do.

IBM concluded it was the media.  I wasn't so sure.

I ended up doing an "install" with the same media.  It did ask me for 
the second DVD and completed normally.  Since this was an install and 
not an upgrade I had to rediscover my servers and redo my HMC profiles.

Jerry


On 3/5/2014 4:31 PM, Kirk Goins wrote:
> OK I knew this answer once but it has been a while. During an HMC Upgrade
> using Recovery Media, at the the end of the first DVD, the HMC posts a
> question about wanting to install additional software ( I think that is
> correct ).there are 2 options It appears that I should press a '1' to
> continue and what I expect to see is it eventually tell me to put the
> next/#2 DVD in the machine and probably press enter or some such thing.
>
> What I get is nothing on the screen and if I press enter it just repeats
> itself. I have tried recently to use the both the 10key #1 and QWERTY #1
> with the same results.
>
> What am I supposed to press? this as happended to me at multiple levels of
> HMCs and with a mix of keyboards