How to enter the Services Mode when bootup

[edmond]

Dears,

Is anyone know how to enter the services mode when bootup, since I need to
re-install the AIX. The machine type is 7026-H80. I try to press key '5' but
still bootup to normal mode. When to press the key (no graphic display to
the monitor).


Regards,

Edmond

[Michael Plutt]

Edmond,

I never did like figuring out what key to press and at what point, so if I
need to boot from a mksysb, I just do the following:

bootlist -m normal rmt0 hdisk0

Then I run shutdown -Fr

When the system tries to come up in normal, then it will first try to boot
from the tape drive, and if the image is not bootable on the tape drive, it
will come up off the hard disk like it would normally.

Later,

Michael Plutt
"edmond" <edmondck@mail.hongkong.com> wrote in message
news:3f61fabc@newsgate.hknet.com...

> Dears,
>
> Is anyone know how to enter the services mode when bootup, since I need to
> re-install the AIX. The machine type is 7026-H80. I try to press key '5'

but

> still bootup to normal mode. When to press the key (no graphic display to
> the monitor).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Edmond
>
>
>

[Kent Squires]

you need to press the 5 key when the word "keyboard" is displayed


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:13:43 GMT, "Michael Plutt"
<mplutt@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Edmond,
>
>I never did like figuring out what key to press and at what point, so if I
>need to boot from a mksysb, I just do the following:
>
>bootlist -m normal rmt0 hdisk0
>
>Then I run shutdown -Fr
>
>When the system tries to come up in normal, then it will first try to boot
>from the tape drive, and if the image is not bootable on the tape drive, it
>will come up off the hard disk like it would normally.
>
>Later,
>
>Michael Plutt
>"edmond" <edmondck@mail.hongkong.com> wrote in message
>news:3f61fabc@newsgate.hknet.com...

>> Dears,
>>
>> Is anyone know how to enter the services mode when bootup, since I need to
>> re-install the AIX. The machine type is 7026-H80. I try to press key '5'

>but

>> still bootup to normal mode. When to press the key (no graphic display to
>> the monitor).
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Edmond
>>
>>
>>

>

[Patrick]

Hi Edmon,

attach a terminal (event hyperterm can do the job) to com1, power off
the machine and press ENTER. You will enter the machine's service
processor that gives You the opportunity to do switch between the modes
like the key at older machines did.

Patrick

edmond wrote:

> Dears,
>
> Is anyone know how to enter the services mode when bootup, since I need to
> re-install the AIX. The machine type is 7026-H80. I try to press key '5' but
> still bootup to normal mode. When to press the key (no graphic display to
> the monitor).