Hi, CHIP is already offline in OS390 and please tell me how should I make CHPID online for linux. This is the first time I am doing tape IPL to install LINUX, and sequence of the files on the tape is also like tapeipl.ikr, parmfile, initrd. Pls. help.
Best Regards Dayanidhi A Ext: 6220 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TAPE IPL failed in LINUX installation. Is the CHPID available in the Linux partition. It will need to be varied off to the OS/390 LPAR and varied on to the Linux LPAR. Also, the sequence of the files on the tape should be tapeipl.ikr, parmfile, initrd. On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:00, DAYANIDHI Arunagiri wrote: > Hi All, > > In our shop I started installing SuSe LINUX in our MULTIPRISE 3000 S390 server, as a > first step I downloaded SuSe linux and related document from internet. We have done > the following activities one by one and failed during tape IPL: > > 1) Created seperate LINUX IMAGE is support element. > 2) Other IMAGE has V2R6 os390. > 3) TAPE DRIVE 580 & 581 are already configured to S390. > 4) Configure ethernet device to LINUX partition by defining it in MPTS configuration > and assigned a CU Address for that device. > 5) Copied three files Tapeipl.ikr, Initrd, Parmfile from CD --> to DASD (os390) --> > to unlabled tape(in BLP format) > 6) Once we are ready with IPLable tape we started IPLing the tape using 581 the > tapedrive address in support element and IPLed the LINUX IMAGE, but it failed with > error message "THE LOAD ADDRESS IS NOT CONFIGURED IN THE PARTITION". > > My question is whether I have to do any other configuration changes in support > element to do TAPE IPL and also I am not sure whether the tape drives should be in > OFFLOAD mode in os390 partition. I tried either way it didn't worked. > > Is any faced similar problem? I am held up in the initial installation step itself, > please help me. > > Best Regards > Dayanidhi A > Ext: 6220 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer DSG eServer & Linux Solutions Milwaukee, WI rsmrcina at wi.rr.com rsmrcina at dsgroup.com Catch the WAVV! Stay for requirements and the free-for-all. Update your zSeries skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2004 in Chattanooga, TN April 30-May 4, 2004 For details see http://www.wavv.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
