Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-15 Thread Eric Sammons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/2004 03:17 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode?? On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:49, Richard Troth wrote: To re-set your

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:49, Richard Troth wrote: To re-set your root password (or any local account password), do this: ... ipl the installation system ... insmod dasd dasd=whatever mount /dev/something /mnt chroot /mnt sh passwd root

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:34, Richard Troth wrote: This is why we need consistent support for Leland's PARM patch. I think he used the LOADPARM option which afaik is an undocumented interface. We did patches to support the PARM option of the IPL command ages ago (in the ISP/ASP Redbook) but I

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-12 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Rob van der Heij writes: vmlinx linux007 201 /mnt/tmp Yes, vmlinx is a little bash script that issues the CP LINK command through hcp, adds the new device to /proc/dasd/devices and issues the mount. If you replace the invocation of mount with something that just outputs a map line like

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-12 Thread Malcolm Beattie
[following up to myself, sorry] Malcolm Beattie writes: line. Use another automount daemon over a separate mountpoint with a timeout of only a few seconds. Except the timeout from non-usage of the filesystem will only trigger automount into unmounting it and the underlying minidisk will still

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 02:23, Rob van der Heij wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:34, Richard Troth wrote: This is why we need consistent support for Leland's PARM patch. I think he used the LOADPARM option which afaik is an undocumented interface. There's a ZIPL patch that does LOADPARM as a

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-12 Thread Richard Troth
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Rob van der Heij wrote: I think he used the LOADPARM option which afaik is an undocumented interface. As Adam mentioned, there were/are two such patches, both courtesy of Mr. Lucius. The one you use for example: IPL 200 PARM -b is what I use on a regular basis.

ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Eric Sammons
My boot disk is 200, thus to start my guest in VM I execute ipl 200 clear. If I need to get to single user mode how would I do that? Thanks! Eric Sammons -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Rich Smrcina
init 1 On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 16:39, Eric Sammons wrote: My boot disk is 200, thus to start my guest in VM I execute ipl 200 clear. If I need to get to single user mode how would I do that? Thanks! Eric Sammons -- For

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Eric Sammons
] cc: Subject:Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode?? init 1 On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 16:39, Eric Sammons wrote: My boot disk is 200, thus to start my guest in VM I execute ipl 200 clear. If I need to get to single user mode how would I do that? Thanks! Eric Sammons

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Post, Mark K
PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode?? init 1 On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 16:39, Eric Sammons wrote: My boot disk is 200, thus to start my guest in VM I execute ipl 200 clear. If I need to get to single user mode how would I do that? Thanks! Eric

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Rich Smrcina
please... Thanks! Eric Sammons Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/11/2004 05:54 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode?? init 1

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Richard Troth
This is why we need consistent support for Leland's PARM patch. -- R; -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:34, Richard Troth wrote: This is why we need consistent support for Leland's PARM patch. There's a new version on the way. The current one breaks reader IPLs. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Eric Sammons
. Eric Sammons Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/11/2004 06:20 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode?? He means IPL to the login

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Richard Troth
I guess I could boot from the install image and go to rescue mode. I must say though not having the ability to execute the equal of linux 1 from the syslinux prompt is not cool. One thing I try to keep in my doctor's bag is a ready-to-run installation system. To re-set your root password

Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode??

2004-03-11 Thread Post, Mark K
the network if needed, etc. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Sammons Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ipl boot-disk clear, SINGLE USER mode?? Can't login as root, the wonderful