First off, thanks to all of you whom tried to help me here. As far as I can tell, I have done everything to excruciating exactness. I have evidence that Yast did everything it was supposed to do, as I found it created a parmline file with the correct information in it. I have attempted running silo with the root path changed to /mnt/ via chroot, with the PWD set relative to that into /boot (which would have been /mnt/boot before the chroot) and I've specified the options for silo properly. It even appears to write the block properly.
Regardless of what I have attempted and all of your wonderful advice, I still get a Dev status of 0C and subchannel status of 40. This makes me beg the question, has anyone here installed suse linux 7.0, native in an LPAR, without VM, in a setup using strictly ficon to go to a ficon switch and from there to a shark dasd box? I will further assume that the block silo says it write the boot map to is relative to the number of inodes on the device, and will therefore vary? Is there any tool that can examine the disk while it is mounted and SHOW what the IPL record on disc contains and where it is? Where does the IPL process expect the IPL record to be? Thanks again everyone. This is just driving me nuts -J
