Re: 5.2ML4 won't boot

From: Roy (garlic_at_garlic.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:56:32 -0700

Exactly right. The preservation install complained the boot partition
was too small. Said I needed a minimum of 8MB. The partition was 16MB.
The drive had several GB free too

Timothy J. Bogart wrote:
> Roy wrote:
>
>> The bad news. I had to do a complete reinstall of AIX. Even a
>> preservation install failed. Luckily this was a test system so the
>> loss of data wasn't great
>>
>> The good news. I did a successful upgrade to ML4
>
>
> What was the problem with a preservation install? Did it complain about
> a size problem with the boot area?
>
> Sometimes, when you lose a disk block right in the boot area, it is then
> too small for even a preservation install. Full install works like a
> champ. Just went thru this myself, except that the problem occurred
> just as I was going to install ML4.