<shurg> Then it may be something specific to our site.
zipl here seems to depend upon information that mkinitrd has generated, and in
this case, it can definately be wrong infomration I guess. I have to autoprobe
anyway it seems.
"dd" works every time. It is also as fast as DDR at copying volumes around. ;)
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On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
> "zipl" as far as I can tell, does not write out the boot sector on
> the DASD the same way, or at least it does not appear to. Running
> zipl on a freshly copied volume here will not result in a DASD unit
> that will IPL. "dd" will.
>
> As to traditional - well - dd pretty well predates zipl and
> chgroot; we were doing it in the late 1970's. ;)
If zipl does NOT write a boot sector, then that is a reportable bug.
You might need to rerun mkinitrd too. However, the whole point of
zipl is that it writes an IPL record to your DASD.
Adam
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