Thanks, Mike.  That works great!  Thats one off my "follow-up" list.

Kind Regards,
Steve



________________________________
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Mike Walter
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: zLinux OS disk read-only


> so I need to find a way to spool the console when it starts and not later 
> after it has gone through its initialization.

That's easy...

Before the first device statement, insert:
COMMAND SPOOL CONSOLE TO * START NAME &USERID CONSOLE

Mike Walter
Aon Corporation
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.



"Perez, Steve S" <[email protected]>

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03/01/2011 02:53 PM
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The disk is defined as follows. This is an excerpt from the CP directory:

IPL 200
.....
LINK RHMASTER 199 199 RR
MDISK 200 3390 1 10016 LX53B5 M

Unfortunately, the console log did not get spooled so I don't know what the log 
would have indicated for that disk when the guest machine came up.  That's on 
my follow-up list.  The guest machine is IPL'd off of its OS (disk 200) disk 
when it comes up (in its CP Directory) so I need to find a way to spool the 
console when it starts and not later after it has gone through its 
initialization.


Thanks,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of RPN01
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: zLinux OS disk read-only

How is the disk defined in the CP Directory entry (i.e. What is the mode of the 
disk), and what is in the console log when the user was logged in that could 
give a clue about the status of the disk when the user was initialized?

The mode will tell you the condition(s) that could lead to it being read only 
(other users having it read/write or even read only), and the log may even tell 
you which or how many users gummed up the works, or when things when oval on 
you.

In any case, it had to have happened at some point, and there has to be a 
footprint, if you keep your logs.

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On 3/1/11 2:23 PM, "Steve Perez" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone run into a situation where the zLinux OS disk has become
> READ-
>
> ONLY access?  We are running z/Linux under z/VM 5.4 Redhat 5.4.
>
> My zLinux Admin were doing compares between the production environment
>
> versus the Test D/R environment and noticed it.  He issued the
> following
>
> on the prod zLinux guest environment:
>
> # mount -o remount,rw /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00
> mount: block device /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 is write-protected,
> mounting
>
> read-only
>
> Since we are testing our D/R process at the moment for the z/VM LPAR
> we
>
> are unsure at this point whether that is a contributing factor.  It
> shoul d not be but we can't rule it out.  We paused our PPRC/Global
> mirroring fro m the z/OS side before starting the D/R activities to
> perform recovery of
>
> the z/VM & z/Linux.  The problem was found while in the middle of
> verifying/comparing environments on the zLinux side.  I can link to
> the
>
> minidisk that is used to IPL that zLinux guest and it shows R/W when I
>
> issue Q LINKS.   All other minidisks owned by that zLinux guest are R/W a
> s
> well.  From my perspective (z/VM) all looks good.
>
> Any input would be appreciated, if anything to rule out that PPRC/GM
> woul d have contributed to this.
>
> Thanks.
> Steve.
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