System information

Rel. 7.0 and 8.0 Red Book for AIX

Verifying the mksysb Tape

Verify your mksysb tape before you reboot your system.

To verify the mksysb tape:

1. On the system console, return to the Unix command prompt (#) in one of the following

ways:

• Press F3 to step back through the previous menus.

• Hold and press Ctrl-C.

2. At the command prompt (#), enter the following command:

# smit lsmksysb

Note: Use a lower case l in the lsmksysb command, not the number 1.

3. Leave the tape in the drive and press Esc-4 to select the device name in the second field

on this screen. The default for this field is /dev/rmt0.

If your primary tape drive is another device, press Esc-4 to select the name in this field.

The verification process begins.

You can let it run to completion or stop it by using Ctrl-C. It will take quite a while to

stop, so be patient. If you stop the verification it will eventually give you an error

message of “failed," which in this case only means that you stopped the verification.

An "OK" in the upper left corner of the screen indicates a successful readback.

4. Press Esc-3 until you are back at the # prompt to get out of mksysb process.

5. Eject your mksysb tape.