Hey all,

I have an AIX box here that hangs just minutes after the boot sequence
is finished, if it gets that far. Anyway, the box is stuck there and I
cannot access it. Anyone know how I can interrupt the system during boot
and drop it to single-user mode?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

you dont mention what type of aix box

keyless system: press F1 or F5 (on graphics screen) or 1 or 5 on
ASCII screen when the keyboard icon or the word keyboard appears

if it's a keyed system, turn the key to service (i think of some
there's a picture of a wrench to indicate this) and boot

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:15:47 -0230, Dave Weir <daveweir_99@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I have an AIX box here that hangs just minutes after the boot sequence
>is finished, if it gets that far. Anyway, the box is stuck there and I
>cannot access it. Anyone know how I can interrupt the system during boot
>and drop it to single-user mode?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Dave

Do you have a mksysb tape, or, a copy of the media? If so, boot from
one of them and check your bootlist.

HTH,
Pete's
The opinions I may have stated are mine and not that of my employer.
Use any advice given at your own risk.


Dave Weir <daveweir_99@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3F6F5F7B.1050807@yahoo.com>...
> Hey all,
>
> I have an AIX box here that hangs just minutes after the boot sequence
> is finished, if it gets that far. Anyway, the box is stuck there and I
> cannot access it. Anyone know how I can interrupt the system during boot
> and drop it to single-user mode?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave

"Dave Weir" <daveweir_99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3F6F5F7B.1050807@yahoo.com...
> Hey all,
>
> I have an AIX box here that hangs just minutes after the boot sequence
> is finished, if it gets that far. Anyway, the box is stuck there and I
> cannot access it. Anyone know how I can interrupt the system during boot
> and drop it to single-user mode?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave
>

How are you booting the system ? shutdown ??
If shutdown then there would be options in the shutdown command to get it to
single user mode.
Read the man page.

shutdown itself would be a shell script, you could take a look and see if
you detect where it could be
getting stuck.

One instance which I saw of shutdowns getting stuck , was if the console is
XOFF'ed

Dhrit