Hi Andy,

What HMC code level are you using ? I strongly advice you to upgrade
your HMC code. This is a known problem in the early releases of HMC.
Patching the HMC resolves the problem.

thanks !

cheers.

Andy <aqsc42@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message news:<BB2A48D9.83D6%aqsc42@dsl.pipex.com>...
> Here is a strange problem we seem to be experiencing.
>
> We have a HMC controlling two p650's running AIX 5.2ML01
>
> One of the 650's is partitioned into 2 LPARS, the other into 1.
>
> If we reboot the HMC, it comes back up and all the systems show in
> 'recovery' mode. We right click on the entry on the HMC and we are told it
> can recover the information on each partition from a backup.
>
> If we configure the single partition to run in 'Full System' mode, when we
> do this, it actually reboots the partition. Is this right? Is there a way to
> stop the HMC setting the partitions to 'recovery' mode when it's rebooted?
>
> Thanks