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Chapter 8. Hardware Management Console overview
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8.9 HMC service utilities and tasks
The Advanced System Management Interface is a service that is provided to
allow access to the system to perform actions including powering on the system,
changing the boot configuration, and other tasks. ASMI can be launched from a
Web browser or from the HMC. 7.3, “Advanced System Management Interface”
on page 175 also covers ways to access the ASMI menus.
8.9.1 HMC boot up fails with fsck required
There are certain circumstances where the HMC can fail and leave the file
subsystem in an unknown state. Power failure is the most common form of
incident, caused by inadvertently pressing the power button during a disk access,
pulling the power cable, or power supply failure.
The HMC has the ability to recover itself in most incidents. There may be a time
when the HMC stops the boot process with the following error message
displayed:
fsck failed please repair manually. login with root
If you have completed the Guided Setup you will have changed the default root
password. You should use this new password.