The following workarounds are applicable to IBM® ToolsCenter
Bootable Media Creator.
- When deploying Windows 2008 editions on an IBM System x®3250
M5 with or without ServeRAID C100 enabled, a blue screen might occur
- To avoid this problem, complete the following steps:
Workaround: - Open uEFI settings.
- Open the Device and I/O Ports setting.
- If the ServeRAID C100 is enabled, change the onboard
SATA ports as to RAID or IDE.
- If the ServeRAID C100 is not enabled, change the onboard
SATA ports as to IDE.
- Save the settings changes. The system will work normally when
you reboot from the ServerGuide.
- The keyboard does not work when confirming to exit ToolsCenter
program
- After booting a system with bootable media created using IBM ToolsCenter
Bootable Media Creator, when
you select to exit the ToolsCenter program, you are prompted to confirm
the exit action. The keyboard cannot be used to confirm the exit action.
Workaround: Use the mouse to confirm the exit
action, or create the media to run in TUI mode.
- cygwin1.dll conflict
- IBM ToolsCenter
Bootable Media Creator ships
the cygwin1.dll (version 1.5.24, renamed to cygwinz.dll),
which is required by the mkisofs.exe and cdrecord.exe utilities.
The cygwin DLL does not support multiple versions running at the same
time. You must exit all other applications that depend on cygwin1.dll before
running IBM ToolsCenter
Bootable Media Creator on
a Windows System.
- IBM ToolsCenter
Bootable Media Creator might
fail to burn a CD or DVD if it runs on RHEL3 with an IDE CD-ROM or
IDE DVD-ROM
- Add hdx=ide-scsi to the boot
loader configuration file. For example: /etc/lilo.conf for
LILO or /boot/grub /menu.lst for GRUB), where hdx is
either hda, hdb, hdc,
or hdd, depending on where your CD or DVD drive is
located.
- USB flash drives that are used by Linux are not recognized by
Windows
- To enable Windows to recognize the USB flash drive so that it
can be used by IBM ToolsCenter
Bootable Media Creator on
a Windows system, format the USB flash drive on a Linux system to
FAT32 file format using the mkdosfs utility. For
example: mkdosfs -I -F 32 /dev/sdb).
- Failure when burning created ISO files to CD/DVD, or created CD/DVD
fails to boot
- If you are unable to burn created ISO files to CD or DVD media,
or if the CD or DVD you have created fails to boot, try using an alternative
media writing software or use a different brand and type of media.
- IBM BladeCenter® HS22
fails to boot from SanDisk 4GB bootable USB key
- When using the SanDisk 4GB bootable USB key created by Bootable Media Creator to
boot HS22 (machine type 7870), the system might boot directly into
the OS environment installed on the hard disk drive but not boot into
the USB key.
Workaround: Update the
uEFI firmware or use a Lexar USB key or a bootable CD.
- USB key automatically mounts in noexec mode on SLES 10 sp4
- As a security measure, USB keys can be mounted in noexec mode,
which prevents executable files on the key from running. This will
prevent you from using the BoMC binary,
even after using chmod to change permissions.
Workaround: Copy the binary to the hard drive
of the system, use chmod to give it proper permissions,
and execute from the hard drive.