I've done this for a few VM installs. It's been a couple of years, but here's what I'm pretty sure of. You have to possess (delivered or self-created) an IPLable DVD containing the VM kernel code. You insert the DVD into an actual directly-connected HMC and select 'Load from Media'. The DVD reader lights up. If you've done it right, a VM instance is materializes in memory and communicates with you via Operating System Messages. I do not recall ever firing up the HMC's 3270 emulator. VM churns for (quite) some time and finally gives you the opportunity to write itself out to DASD. The configuration you define during this process includes a console device for future IPLs.
After it's all done, you IPL the new system with a Load Profile that points to your newly defined res vol. If everything is OK, subsequent IPLs write to whatever 3270 device you have defined to VM. One caution: if you have downloaded VM from the interweb, the mechanism you use to create the IPLable DVD is crucial. I spent days (!) trying to IPL from a DVD that I created incorrectly. You cannot simply copy all the downloaded files to a DVD. The result looks OK on Windows, even on Unix, but the HMC will tell you that the DVD is empty. You need an appropriate application to do the job. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@att.net > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of R.S. > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 08:44 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [Bulk] Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server" > > W dniu 2016-01-28 o 17:33, Herring, Bobby pisze: > > I'm not very VM literate but when I IPL our VM/Linux LPAR's, we have to add > CONS=xxxx to the load parm part of the IPL screen. > Yes, that's right, but I'm talking about something different. It is not LOAD > (regular IPL), but "Load from Removable Media or Server" - installation from > DVD or ftp server. There is no place to put load parameters. > Quite speciic scenario, but installation process is possibly older than > "Integrated 3270 Console", so other consoles for that process should be also > an option. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
