>> >> Congratulations! Mainframes are fun! > > Thanks and yes they are :) > >> One does not boot a mainframe; one IPLs it. :) > > I totally knew this but somehow forgot such terminology while writing this email. *facepalm* > >> I can't advise you as to the other boxes. From my Linux experience on mainframe I can say it doesn't seem to boo... IPL any differently to any other mainframe OS. If you can define the device to the mainframe and issue an IPL command, you *should* be able to IPL anything I think? > > Hm ok, I will have to do some more research on the storage front then. > What I have been told is that you can IPL Linux over a SAN but not any IBM OS. > But if IPLing shouldn't be any different then maybe you can't IPL from a SAN at all which I wouldn't be surprised at. > > -Connor K
Check the OS defaults of the SAN networking software layer. My instinct is AIX might play a part here.
