ITEM: HR6229L

/usr/lpp/ssp/bin/SDRGetObjects : 0025-035 : cannot convert system part

Question:

Env:
  AIX 4.2.1
  RISC SP high node
  sysback 4.2.1.4

Problem:
  Customer is doing a network boot and gets this error 
  message displayed on the screen:

  block_size
 /usr/lpp/ssp/bin/SDRGetObjects : 0025-035 : cannot convert system partition
 name to desired format.
 Please select your terminal type from the list below.

 Those messages don't appear when reinstalling non-SP hosts.

Action Taken:
  The problem only happened with Sysback V4 not V3.

 After some investigation, the problem turned out to be caused by a pseudo 
 tape device TMPCP0 on SP systems. It is not a true tape drive.
 This virtual tape device is very limited on an SP node. You can not change
 block size or execute tctl commands.

 Since this tape drive shows up with the lsdev -Cc tape command it causes
 a few problems with sysback.  I will provide a fix in sysback.rte 4.2.1.6
 to fix this problem.

Here is a workaround until then:

1.  cd /usr/lpp/sysback/netinst/boot
2.  cp rc.boot rc.boot.org
3.  vi rc.boot
    Search for the word  "lsdev"

CHANGE THIS LINE

  \# configured to block size 512.
  lsdev -Cc tape | while read device x
  do

TO THIS:

  \# configured to block size 512.
  lsdev -Cc tape | grep rmt | while read device x
  do

  All you did was add a  "| grep rmt"

4.  Save the file
6.  Rebuild any network boot images

That should keep that problem was occurring.



Support Line: /usr/lpp/ssp/bin/SDRGetObjects : 0025-035 : cannot convert system part ITEM: HR6229L

Dated: October 1998 Category: N/A

This HTML file was generated 99/06/24~13:30:13

Comments or suggestions?
Contact us