I just remembered something about YaST, and the way it re-orders your "dasd=" parameter when you specify a swap volume. When you IPLed the ram disk installation system, what did your parmfile look like? Did you specify a swap volume during the install? If so, YaST made that swap volume /dev/dasda, and your root file system /dev/dasdb. Try IPLing from your swap volume and see what happens.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Attempting first IPL after initial SuSE install Nope. I just did a fresh install that consisted of the following actions: 1) Load ramdisk version from HCM 2) Configure networky stuff 3) telnet into ramdisk system 4) ran insmod command to make devices available 5) ran YaST 6) Tried to IPL. I followed the instructions to the letter this time just to make sure I didn't have assumptions. I did not manually adjust the parmline file, or anything else. I let Yast do everything. My understanding is that YaST should run silo, etc, under the covers. Is this true? At any rate I am now back to the point at which I was when I began manually trying to run silo and get it to boot. The symptoms don't change. Device status 0c and subchannel status 40. What should the next step be? |---------+----------------------------> | | "Post, Mark K" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | m> | | | Sent by: Linux on| | | 390 Port | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | IST.EDU> | | | | | | | | | 03/12/2002 10:28 | | | AM | | | Please respond to| | | Linux on 390 Port| | | | |---------+----------------------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Subject: Re: Attempting first IPL after initial SuSE install | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------| So, if silo appeared to work, does your LPAR now IPL successfully? Or at least _start_ to IPL, since it wasn't doing that before? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Attempting first IPL after initial SuSE install Silo appeared to work. I have seen no reference to zipl in any documentation that I currently have. (dig...dig...dig) Ahh, the manual that came with the install media... It's.... the 7.0 version I'm dealing with.
