HMC load failure - IPL address 0000 invalid

[Schlehuber, Patrick]

Starting this week I am now experiencing HMC failures IPL'ing my z/OS systems. My load profiles look correct, but I now receive an error stating "The load address is not configured in the partition" and displays a load address of 0000. The IPL parm looks correct, just the LOAD address is 0000. This occurs when I do an activate to the LOAD profile. The IPL is successful if I do a manual LOAD. I see this error using two different HMCs at different code levels. I am experiencing this on 2 different processors.


Anyone sees something like this before? I have a hard time believing it is a HMC bug as it has been operating many months before with no problem.

Pat

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[Bielskie, Stephen]

Patrick,

You say you do an "ACTIVATE" on a LOAD profile, which leads me to believe you are doing an "Activate" on the image with the "Load during activate" specified. You probably need to check the image profile.

First double-click on the LPAR image from the CPC Images area. Make sure that the activation profile is the same as the one you want to use.

If it is, then , close the window, select the image from the image screen, then double-click "customize/delete activation profiles". Select the image profile and click 'customize', then click the load tab and see what it has. This is defaulted to 0000 Load Address.

Regards,
Steve



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Starting this week I am now experiencing HMC failures IPL'ing my z/OS systems. My load profiles look correct, but I now receive an error stating "The load address is not configured in the partition" and displays a load address of 0000. The IPL parm looks correct, just the LOAD address is 0000. This occurs when I do an activate to the LOAD profile. The IPL is successful if I do a manual LOAD. I see this error using two different HMCs at different code levels. I am experiencing this on 2 different processors.


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[Eatherly, John D [IT]]

From Mike Reddy...
A couple of questions first: What changed? Are we using an Image profile
to activate the lpar, or just a LOAD profile?

A load profile has a pre-determined load address and parm specified. We
don't use them here because we change sysres's every time almost.
An image profile defines the lpar storage, weight, cpu, etc, and
includes an OPTIONAL load screen to automatically IPL the lpar to a
pre-determined address. We don't use that option either.

Double click exact icon that is being "ACTIVATED" for the system to IPL
(it may be a grouping and not that actual image icon) and look at the
top for the "assigned profile"
Then click "Change options" to view that profile and look for the LOAD
tab that shows the predetermined load address. If it is in fact zero,
the HMC is doing what it was told to do.

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Starting this week I am now experiencing HMC failures IPL'ing my z/OS
systems. My load profiles look correct, but I now receive an error
stating "The load address is not configured in the partition" and
displays a load address of 0000. The IPL parm looks correct, just the
LOAD address is 0000. This occurs when I do an activate to the LOAD
profile. The IPL is successful if I do a manual LOAD. I see this error
using two different HMCs at different code levels. I am experiencing
this on 2 different processors.


Anyone sees something like this before? I have a hard time believing it
is a HMC bug as it has been operating many months before with no
problem.

Pat

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[Pat Schlehuber]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:11:17 -0600, Eatherly, John D [IT]

Post by Eatherly, John D [IT]
From Mike Reddy...
A couple of questions first: What changed? Are we using an Image profile
to activate the lpar, or just a LOAD profile?
A load profile has a pre-determined load address and parm specified. We
don't use them here because we change sysres's every time almost.
An image profile defines the lpar storage, weight, cpu, etc, and
includes an OPTIONAL load screen to automatically IPL the lpar to a
pre-determined address. We don't use that option either.
Double click exact icon that is being "ACTIVATED" for the system to IPL
(it may be a grouping and not that actual image icon) and look at the
top for the "assigned profile"
Then click "Change options" to view that profile and look for the LOAD
tab that shows the predetermined load address. If it is in fact zero,
the HMC is doing what it was told to do.
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Starting this week I am now experiencing HMC failures IPL'ing my z/OS
systems. My load profiles look correct, but I now receive an error
stating "The load address is not configured in the partition" and
displays a load address of 0000. The IPL parm looks correct, just the
LOAD address is 0000. This occurs when I do an activate to the LOAD
profile. The IPL is successful if I do a manual LOAD. I see this error
using two different HMCs at different code levels. I am experiencing
this on 2 different processors.
Anyone sees something like this before? I have a hard time believing it
is a HMC bug as it has been operating many months before with no
problem.
Pat
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I have done exactly as you said. We do not use image profiles to IPL, just
to setup the LPARs, we strictly use LOAD profiles to IPL. The LOAD profile
has an IPL Address and an IPL Parm as I expect it should. But when this
Profile is actually ACTIVATED, it comes back flagging a Load address of
0000, but it does show the valid IPL Parm. Double clicking on the LPAR
does show the LOAD profile I expect to be ACTIVATED.

I have passed this problem on to IBM and they are chewing on the HMC logs.

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[Rob Wunderlich]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:06:48 -0600, Schlehuber, Patrick

Post by Schlehuber, Patrick
Starting this week I am now experiencing HMC failures IPL'ing my z/OS

systems. My load profiles look correct, but I now receive an error
stating "The load address is not configured in the partition" and
displays a load address of 0000.

Have you recently changed the "Use dynamically specified load address"
option?

-Rob

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