Ok, here it goes... Yesterday I took the SUSE 7.0 CD's into the computer room and placed the cd1 into the cd reader on our 7060-h30, and ran the install from the HMC to load from CD... that part seemed to work just fine... Now came the part that was goofy.... I telneted into the newly created LINUX lpar from a os/2 dos window on the 7060 which worked fine. Then I issued the UNIX command insmod dasd probeonly and tons of disks came up on the "Dumb HMC Console" that I had open for LINUX. Then I issued the UNIX command: insmod dasd probeonly and a "BUNCH" of disks come up on the HMC's dumb terminal/console that is opened up for this LPAR. But none with our addresses. Here are the commands from a cut & paste session:
SuSE Instsys linuxlpar:/root # insmod dasd probeonly Using /lib/modules/2.2.16/block/dasd.o SuSE Instsys linuxlpar:/root # insmod dasd 04c0-04c4 Using /lib/modules/2.2.16/block/dasd.o insmod: a module named dasd already exists Then I issue the following command: SuSE Instsys linuxlpar:/root # dasdfmt -n 04c0-04c4 -b 4096 dasdfmt: device number is in invalid format ok, I give up, I think I have done what the installation manual says, my IODF shows that 04c0-04c4 ARE dedicated to this LPAR ONLY... Anybody have an answer ?? since there are NO MESSAGE CODES to look up !!! Love those MESSAGE & CODES MANUALS IBM HAS !! Ken
