Daniel, Since you were able to use your IPL tape to do the initial installation, it should still work to help you out here. IPL from the tape, insmod the dasd_mod module with what ever DASD device numbers you need, mount your volumes, and download what ever RPMs you need to the system. If you mount your root file system on /mnt, and then your other files systems on /mnt/whatever, you should be able to do a "chroot /mnt" command, and then use RPM to install/de-install/whatever to get yourself back to your previous condition.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: upgraded rh 7.2 kernel, lost ctc connection (no network connectivity) Running rh 7.2 in a test LPAR. I recently upgraded my rh 7.2 kernel with rpm -Fhv kernel-tape (from 2.4.9-17 to 2.4.9-37). Everything came up fine except my ctc connection :(. I had made tar backups of boot, and of /lib/modules/kernel-tape2.4.9-17, but I placed the backup of /lib/modules/kernel-tape in that directory. When I rpm -Fhv kernel-tape* the directory (and backup) got removed. Foolish of me. linux is tcsl, and the ctc gateway is tcsm (172.16.18.129). It's always been a little finicky, I couldn't just reboot linux. I had to go down to the hmc, send "ifconfig ctc0 netmask 255.255.255.128 down" on tcsl, send "vary tcpip,,sto,cdevtcsl" and "vary tcipip,,sta,cdevtcsl" on tcsm, then back in tcsl "ifconfig ctc0 up" and "route add default gw 172.16.18.129". Well, now here are the errors I get: when starting up: CTC driver Version 1.54 with chandev support initialized ctc0 read ch 1370 (irq 04fa) write ch 1371 (irq 04fb) proto 0 ch-1370 interface disc or sel reset (remote) ch-1371 interface disc or sel reset (remote) I get a ctc0 connected with remote side ch-1370 Interface disc or Sel. reset(remote) ctc0: Got remote disconnect, re-initializing ch-1370: Interface disc or Sel. reset (remote) ch-1371: Interface disc or Sel reset (remote) ctc0 error during RX init handhsake ctc0 got remote disconnect, reinitializing ctc0 timeout during TX init handshake ctc0 TX channel restart these keep on repeating, along with some retries. if I bounce cdevtcsl I get: ctc0: Error during RX init handshake ch 1371 remote side issued Read?, init... ch 1371: unit check zero ch 1370: unit check ZERO ctc0 got block length 2!=rx length 32768 Timeout during TX init handshake ctc0: TX channel restart etc etc. /proc/subchannels does show my ctc devices. Also, when I issue a ifconfig ctc0 down on the linux side, it's gone for good. no longer shows up in ifconfig, and ifconfig ctc0 up fails. What can I do? I have a feeling restoring /boot/ and re-rerunning zipl won't work because I've lost /lib/modules/kernel-tape2.4.9-17. I'm not sure how to get the older kernel rpm back on there without network connectivity. I've really messed this one up. Any thoughts? ~ Daniel
