changing boot order in AIX

Changing boot order in AIX

What does the boot logical volume(blv) contains?

Contents of Boot Logical Volume in AIX

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

How to Listing and changing the current boot order in AIX

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

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