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From: fredrick@acd.uucp (Tim Fredrick)
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Subject: Re: How can I boot my 320 off of an IBM distribution tape?
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Date: 3 Jun 91 22:43:57 GMT
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In article <11641@ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) writes:
>I need to upgrade an IBM Risc-System 6000/320 from AIX3.1.2 to AIX3.1.5 by
>a complete reinstallation of the operating system from exabyte tape (what is
>running right now is too badly corrupted).  The release notes said that
>you had to do this:
>
>	bootlist -m service fd rmt badisk scdisk


I think I answered my own question.  The "** CATALOG ERROR **" messages
were coming from the corrupted / filesystem, even though the bootlist
command said to search the tape first.  I used the following bootlist
command which seemed to work:

        bootlist -m service fd rmt

I was able to then boot off of the AIX3.1.5 tape and reinstall the
operating system.  As far as I can tell, the installation manual and
release notes on AIX3.1.5 are in error on this point.  Anyone have any
further comments?  Thanks.  --Tim