Re: VIOS: moving a card for the lan

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice job!  Honeslty I likely would have smoked it and built a new one 
but this works!

As to time to reload check that your DNS servers are available and 
responding. Without that VIOS (and all *NIX really) boot up like thei're 
wearing lead boots.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 7/26/2017 8:31 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> bull dog determination...
>
> Looked up chdev.  It says use lsattr.  Looked that up.  Tried that at the
> $ prompt in vios.  not found
> oem_setup_env
> changes from $ prompt to # prompt
> lsattr -E -l ent3
> ...
> real_adapter    ent0     Physical adapter associated with the SEA
> ...
>
> And I noticed at the bottom of the help for chdev this little ditty:
> You can use the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) smit chdev fast
> path to change device characteristics.
>
> Well smit is like using a nice screen in 5250 land.  Which is way better
> than a command line with no prompting.  So I drilled down into that. Found
> the adapter and tried to change it.  I got
> <snip>
> 1800-109 There are currently no additional SMIT screen entries available
> for this item.  This item may require installation of additional software
> before it can be accessed.
> </snip>
> Back to the command line...
>
> chdev -l ent3 -a real_adapter=ent8
> ent3 changed
>
> lsattr -E -l ent3
> verified!
>
> lsattr -E -l ent6
> real_adapter    ent1     Physical adapter associated with the SEA
>
> chdev -l ent6 -a real_adapter=ent9
> ent6 changed
>
> lsattr -E -l ent6
> verified!
>
> exit
> to exit from # prompt to $ prompt
>
> ping myibmi
> 0821-062 ping: host name myibmi NOT FOUND
>
> ok, so maybe I need to reboot?
>
> shutdown -force
> Waited until I got
>     ....Halt completed....
> Verified it was "Not Activated" at the HMC.
> Killed vios terminal.
>
> Started lpar back up on the HMC.
>
> Started vios21 terminal session.  Seemed to take longer than normal but
> when it eventually got there it was ok.
> ping myibmi
> worked!
>
> Rob Berendt