5) Carve out a chunk of memory from the running OS instance to store the ALDR-AIX image, the ALDR
Item Table, the modified IPLCB, the starting registers’ states for virtual processor 0, and the contents of
the RAM disk filesystem, which contains diagnosis tools. This memory region, called ALDR-MemArea, is hidden from the main OS to prevent any accidental overwriting.
6) Create a kernel process for each hardware thread that the original OS instance runs on. This kernel process just sleeps waiting for the resurrection event to occur. This kernel process is needed to initialize a few processor hardware resources before the repaired AIX can run again.