[Gllug] [OT] Tru64

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:22:27PM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:07:29PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > ?  AIX OpenBeta booted on x86.  The problem was with the emulation of
> > the IDE device.
> 
> Apologies for the horrible link, but according to this[1] document, only
> POWER hardware is supported? AFAIK the only version of AIX that has ever
> run on x86 without emulation was an old version of 3.x that ran on a
> limited set of IBM MCA machines in the early 90s.

Weird one.  It does indeed appear to be a PPC image:

$ guestfish -a /mnt/documents/redhat/installers/AIX_6_i386/dvd.AIX_6_OpenBeta.0731D.iso 

Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.

Type: 'help' for help with commands
      'quit' to quit the shell

><fs> run
><fs> list-devices 
/dev/sda
><fs> list-partitions 
/dev/sda1
><fs> file /dev/sda1
ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM                          '
><fs> mount /dev/sda1 /
><fs> ls /
OSLEVEL
RPMS
bosinst.data
etc
image.data
installp
ismp
mkcd.data
ppc
root
sbin
udi
usr
><fs> ls sbin
libguestfs: error: ls_stub: path must start with a / character
><fs> ls /sbin
comp.kext
helpers
><fs> file /sbin/comp.kext 
data
><fs> file /mkcd.data 
ASCII text
><fs> ls /RPMS
ppc
><fs> ls /RPMS/ppc 
><fs> ls /etc 
consdef
filesystems
objrepos
preserve.list
><fs> ls /usr
bin
ccs
lib
lpp
sbin
share
sys
><fs> ls /usr/sbin
allocp
bootinfo
cfgmgr
chcons
chdev
chfs
chiscsi
chlv
chpv
extendlv
extendvg
fsck
getlvcb
getlvname
getlvodm
getvgname
imfs
importvg
lchangepv
lcreatelv
ldeletelv
lextendlv
lmktemp
logform
logredo
lquerylv
lquerypv
lqueryvg
lreducelv
lsattr
lsdev
lsfs
lsiscsi
lslv
lvaryoffvg
lvgenmajor
lvgenminor
lvmmsg
lvrelmajor
lvrelminor
mkboot
mkfs
mkiscsi
mklv
mknod
mkvg
mount
putlvcb
putlvodm
readlvcopy
redefinevg
restbyname
rmdev
rmiscsi
rmlv
strload
swapon
sync
synclvodm
umount
updatevg
varyonvg
><fs> file /usr/sbin/lsfs
executable (RISC System/6000 V3.1) or obj module
><fs> file /usr/sbin/lvrelmajor
executable (RISC System/6000 V3.1) or obj module
><fs> file /usr/sbin/swapon
executable (RISC System/6000 V3.1) or obj module


I suppose explains why it didn't work ...  Although I remember
it as an IDE error.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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