Re: Changing serial paramters from rootvg with no filesystems mounted

From: Laurenz Albe (albe_at_culturallNOSPAM.com)
Date: 03/29/05

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    Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:35:35 +0000 (UTC)

    Harry Ostertberg <blah@blah.blah> wrote:
    > I'm having an issue with serial connection on a (thank God) development
    > box. The interfaces aren't starting up properly at boot, either, which
    > makes this a bit more fun to fix.

    What did you do to bring about this condition?

    > If I boot it up from the CD-ROM and attempt to access the rootvg without
    > mounting the filesystems, I can't quite figure out what to do. I can mount
    > all the filesystems, but I'm not sure how to get it to change settings
    > for the serial port. With certain other operating systems, I could do
    > a chroot /mnt, but that doesn't seem to be an option with AIX.

    What keeps you from using chroot once you have mounted all necessary
    file systems?
    Refer to chroot by absolute path and create symbolic links for all the
    libraries it needs.

    Yours,
    Laurenz Albe

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