I need some insight as to how to get an old IBM RS/6000 R40 to boot
into the maitenance menu to change the boot list. I can get it to go
into maintenance mode with key in service mode and have set the
bootlist there, but it does not seem to help.

I have turned the key to service mode then at the > prompt typed "sbb"
and got to the config menus and verified that the options of "bump
console" and ",,," set to disable per the manual. It is supposed to
display the "maitenance menu" after the LED code of 292 I believe, but
I never get the menu. It just says, no boot device.

any thoughts?

On Oct 31, 4:04 pm, parker.jam...@gmail.com wrote:
> I need some insight as to how to get an old IBM RS/6000 R40 to boot
> into the maitenance menu to change the boot list. I can get it to go
> into maintenance mode with key in service mode and have set the
> bootlist there, but it does not seem to help.
>
> I have turned the key to service mode then at the > prompt typed "sbb"
> and got to the config menus and verified that the options of "bump
> console" and ",,," set to disable per the manual. It is supposed to
> display the "maitenance menu" after the LED code of 292 I believe, but
> I never get the menu. It just says, no boot device.
>
> any thoughts?

Has your boot disk died? Try booting into maint mode from CD

On Nov 2, 6:57 am, tmpol...@netscape.net wrote:
> On Oct 31, 4:04 pm, parker.jam...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I need some insight as to how to get an old IBM RS/6000 R40 to boot
> > into the maitenance menu to change the boot list. I can get it to go
> > into maintenance mode with key in service mode and have set the
> > bootlist there, but it does not seem to help.
>
> > I have turned the key to service mode then at the > prompt typed "sbb"
> > and got to the config menus and verified that the options of "bump
> > console" and ",,," set to disable per the manual. It is supposed to
> > display the "maitenance menu" after the LED code of 292 I believe, but
> > I never get the menu. It just says, no boot device.
>
> > any thoughts?
>
> Has your boot disk died? Try booting into maint mode from CD

Well, we finally got it to boot. Microcode got corrupted in the power
failure.
FYI, we would boot into maint mode and all seemed good, but when
trying to boot for real it failed.
Microcode reload fixed it.
thanks.