True, but from what I could tell, his sysprog was looking for something
containing the ipltext which "had to be in the right place."  Looking at
boot.map or the parmfile copy wasn't going to tell him much of anything.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Patterson, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Attempting first IPL after initial SuSE install


Post, Mark K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The silo command does not create a file, it just writes some
> information
> (including the "ipl text" found in ipleckd.boot out to the
> appropriate part
> of the DASD unit.

Actually, silo writes one or two files.  It creates a file
called "boot.map" in the current directory (hence the advice
to "cd /boot; silo ..."), and may also create a copy of the
parm file if the "readonly" option is specified in
/etc/silo.conf.

Ross Patterson
Computer Associates

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