On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 09:58 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote: > Generally speaking, customers aren't allowed to do things like load > drivers on any HMC/SE.
Well, back in the day when we had that 7060 on the floor, we had an OS/2 HMC, which code ran on the embedded deCeleron. There wasn't anything magical about it, nothing that kept you from messing with it in all kinds of invasive ways. So we were "allowed", yeah, and I was OS/2 literate back then. But it scared me half to death every time I touched the HMC, knowing that the complex (such as a 7060 is) was dependent on that OS/2 image. I didn't even install the webserver - the most I ever messed with that box was getting the ethernet cards working as a backup to the Bustech MAN. From there on it was strictly hands off, threaten your co-workers with bodily harm if they approach without reverence, and hold your own breath as you walk by the thing. Like the Motie Mediators, we juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I'm *happy* the Linux HMC is locked down. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
