Arie, Thanks. We knew it can be done and so tells the HMC help screen. We will try to ipl next week from a DVD after changing to Single Object Operation (so far, we tried without it) and report here. It seems not well documented in the HMC user guide.
Paul, The load program is stored in the HMC anyway, What change does it make for it to load from a disk drive (including the channel program involved) or from DVD? Itschak On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:46:50 +0300, Arye Shemer wrote: > > > >since z/VM and zLinux can be IPLed from a DVD (by my experience) I see no > reason > >why you could not IPL z/OS from DVD. > > > >Of course as mentioned above, you must format the correct files on the > DVD. > >Beside documentation you might want to look inside a zLinux (REDHAT or > SUSE) DVD > >that is IPLable . > > > And code drivers/channel programs/NIP modifications to read those files. > > Does the HMC DVD appear as a channel attached device, or is it accessed > by a LAN connection to the HMC? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
