> -----My Original Message-----
> It was a dark and stormy night.  
> 
> So, after dripping water on our 959 for 8 hours, our machine 
> faulted at 7:30AM just before I got in to work.
> 
> After an hour of letting it dry it comes up to the boot 
> prompt, but after I enter "Y" to interact with the IPL, it tells me:
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> IPL error: bad LIF magic.
>  .... FAILED
> 
> Terminating selection process.
> No boot device found.
> 
> -----------------------------------------

SOLUTION:  SOLUTION:  SOLUTION:  SOLUTION:

What had happened -- although we did not recognize it 
at the time -- was that the Primary Boot Path DEFAULTED.

As those of you with Model 20's may know, it requires
as Fast and Wide SCSI card to operate, a 959 (original
out of the box) multifunction IO card is a Single 
Ended SCSI.  So when it tried to boot, it was trying
to boot off the factory default Primary Boot Path.

All we had to do, is manually type the Boot Path at
the Console to the TRUE location of LDEV 1 and the
system booted properly.

This is one many of you may want to save ... need I
say it ... for a rainy day.

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