Boot

AIX Boot process
Contents of Boot Logical Volume (/dev/hd5)
How to change the current Boot device order
Viewing AIX Boot and console Logs

Contents of Boot Logical Volume

• Kernal - Copy of /unix
• LVM Commands
• ODM Predefined Structure
• ODM Customized Structure
• rc.boot shell script

Listing and changing the current boot order

bootlist -m normal -o          # Lists the current bootlist 
bootlist -m normal cd0 hdisk0  # To set cd0 and hdisk0 as first 
                                 and second boot devices
bootlist -m service cd0 rmt0   # To change the bootlist for service mode

Viewing AIX Boot and Console Logs

Boot and console messages can be used to identify and fix problems. These messages are automatically stored on disk by AIX. To view the stored messages, use the alog command. Here are a couple examples of the alog command:

alog -L      		#  List the defined log types

 # alog -L
 boot
 bosinst
 nim
 console
 cfg
 dumpsymp

alog -o -t boot		#  View the boot log
alog -o -t console	#  View the console log

To find out the properties of boot log file

 # alog -L -t boot
 file:size:verbosity
 /var/adm/ras/bootlog:131072:1

To find out whether a Hard drive is bootable

 # ipl_varyon -i
 PVNAME          BOOT DEVICE     PVID                    VOLUME GROUP ID
 hdisk0          YES             00c898eb372ea9410000000000000000        00c898eb00004c00
 hdisk1          YES             00c898eb38483a300000000000000000        00c898eb00004c00
 hdisk2          NO              00c898bbdd86318c0000000000000000        00c898bb00004c00