Might be a stupid question, but you are running this on a PU and not an IFL,
right?
-Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Mike Hammock
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: OS/390 as zVM 5.2 Guest on z9 ??
> 
> Is anyone out there running  OS/390  2.9  (or earlier) as a guest of
> zVM
> (5.2 in my case, but probably does not matter) on a  z9 ??
> 
> I'm trying to migrate a customer from a FLEX system to a z9 and they
> have
> an old, "un-maintained" OS/390 2.9 guest.  It was running as a VM guest
> with dedicated disks on the FLEX system (zVM 4.4).  I've brought
> everything
> over to the z9 and converted the disks to full-pack minidisks to
> (hopefully) eliminate problems related to using the DS6800 subsystem.
> Other than the full-pack minis vs. dedicated, I believe everything is
> the
> same.  However, when I try to IPL OS/390, it runs for a while (say, 15
> seconds)  then gets:
> HCPGIR453W CP entered; program interrupt loop
> 
> I know this can sometimes be an 'architectural' type problem and I'm
> just
> afraid it may be this time.
> 
> I have verified that the OS/390 IPL does run a while...  it gets to
> processing the  IPLPARM.  (If I specify an invalid IPLPARM I get an
> appropriate wait state code loaded.)  So I know it is at least running
> for
> a little while.
> 
> Any suggestions out there??
> 
> Mike
> 
> C. M. (Mike) Hammock
> Sr. Technical Support
> zFrame & IBM zSeries Solutions
> (404) 643-3258
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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