Slide 6

Maintenance Booting

• Reasons for Utilizing Process

• Boot errors

  • inittab
  • network configuration
  • kernel
  • ODM

• Change "root" password

  • root password of a machine can be changed by booting a machine into maintenance mode from the NIM server and performing the appropriate modifications.

• Fix filesystem problems

  • repair damaged filesystems
  • initialize JFS log
  • repair superblock