I am trying to install AIX 5.3 on one of the LPARs through VIOS but I get this error 0518
Reference Code Selection
0518 (Time stamp: 12/18/12 12:10:20 AM UTC)
Starting kernel (Time stamp: 12/18/12 12:10:15 AM UTC)
AIX is starting. (Time stamp: 12/18/12 12:10:15 AM UTC)
CA00E891 (Time stamp: 12/18/12 12:10:15 AM UTC)
CA00E890 (Time stamp: 12/18/12 12:10:14 AM UTC)
CA00E877 (Time stamp: 12/18/12 12:10:14 AM UTC)
CA00E887 (Time stamp: 12/18/12 12:10:14 AM UTC)
C8/12 12:09:54 AM UTC)
Details
Reference code: 0518
Description: No description available. Consult your service documentation.
Time stamp (UTC): 12/18/12 12:10:20 AM
Word 2: 03D00000
Word 3: 00000000
Word 4: 00000000
Word 5: 00000000
Word 6: 00000000
Word 7: 00000000
Word 8: 00000000
Word 9: 00000000
FRU callout: UNKNOWN BOOTDEV
Doing a little research on google, i got these results
518 Remote mount of the root and /usr filesystems failed during network
boot.
Possibilities:
Is this related to version of AIX 5.3 which is not recognised by VIOS ?
I am trying to boot from the physical optical media -- that is -- i have assigned the optical media CD/DVD to the LPAR Partition and it boots from the CD-ROM expect that it gets stuck at the led 0518 which is something very strange !
In the Installation and Maintenance menu, obviously you can see the DVD drive, but do you see the disks? Maybe you should check your disk assignments on the VIO servers; make sure your slot numbers line up and make sure you assigned the disks to the right vhost number.
My guess is that AIX 5.3 DVD image does not support the system you are trying to install AIX 5.3 on. AIX 5.3 can be installed on most Power7, and certainly Power6, Power5, and Power4, etc..
If you have a nim server I would suggest creating nim installation resources from the DVD - first the LPP and then update to latest service pack, and then create the SPOT.
If you do not have a nim server I recommend making one. There is an example on unix.com and one I wrote and published elsewhere (I have been asked not to put up links to my old articles so you will have to search for it IF you want to compare.) Anyway, once you have the nim server: use recommendation above.
5.3 on a CDROM - must be quite old, and I am more convinced that the boot image does not support your more modern software.
So, since CDROM - do you know which year; which oslevel the CD boots as? You could look at the requirements for the POWER server and the AIX level of the CD and know if there is any chance of the CD successfully installing.
Before I created VIO LPARs , I had 5.3 ML 00 running on the machine on Hdisk0
I installed IBM PowerVM vios on Hdisk1
then created an LPAR_1 == Attachted to this LPAR_1 = HDISK0
booted from LPAR_2 = Everything works fine
Now, created another LPAR ==> LPAR_2
created a virtual disk from disk_pool
attachted the virtual_disk to LPAR_2
attachted the physical CD_ROM to LPAR_2
Booted LPAR_2 in SMS mode
selected install/boot device as CD-ROM and booted from CD-ROM which has the same AIX as HDISK0 which is 5.3 ML 00
but the error occurs
How I attached the virtual disk ?
through web http://vios_server
I cannot put dedicated vscsi because that will need physical SCSI adapters and HMC.
I cannot say what the exact problem is, but I must assume that booting via a virtual interface (which is what you are doing using IVM) is not the same as booting from a physical interface. It might have worked with VIOS 1.0 but then there was no IVM.
On POWER5 I can boot from AIX 5.3 TL7, and this should support most/all VIOS 2.2.X versions, but I would assume ML0, what we would now call TL0 will not know enough to proceed with the virtual scsi interface. Linux on Power was a headache for a long time because of issues with booting on virtual disks. Again, I am assuming, i.e., I may be wrong - but I would proceed by making lpar1 a nim server, THEN update to TL12, and nim install lpar2.
