This is not correct.  See my other reply to Andrew's message.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Ramalingam, Vinod Kumar (Cognizant)
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Moving Linux DASD


Hi Davis..
     For devices other than the root device, You can edit the parmfile and
re-run the silo command. You can't do this for root device as the device
that you are adding is not bootable.

Vinod.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davis, Andrew Phillip (SWD) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:15 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Moving Linux DASD
>
> We have SuSe linux running on S/390 in an LPAR and all was well until the
> hardware team purchased new DASD and de-creed that we need to move from
> our
> existing UCBs to new devices.
>
> /proc/dasd/devices currently shows:
>
> 10A8(ECKD) at (94:0) is   dasda:active  at blocksize: 4096, 601020 blocks,
> 2347 MB
> 10A9(ECKD) at (94:4) is   dasdb:active  at blocksize: 4096, 601020 blocks,
> 2347 MB
> 10AA(ECKD) at (94:8) is   dasdc:active  at blocksize: 4096, 601020 blocks,
> 2347 MB
>
> /boot/parmfile shows:
>
> dasd=10A8,10A9,10AA root=/dev/dasdb1 noinitrd
>
> The UCB addresses 10A8, 10A9 and 10AA need to be replaced with 2B47, 2B48
> and 2B49.
>
> Is it a simple case of editing the boot/parmfile ? Or is there more ?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
> Andrew Davis
>
>
>
>
>
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