Your zipl plan should work.

As for the VOLSER, I've never seen a way to change the volser.  I don't believe Linux 
cares what it is.  I always thought it was so MVS could see the dasd properly.  I 
would think if you change it from MVS, Linux shouldn't care.  It will just notice the 
new VOLSER the next time it starts.

-----Original Message-----
From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Moving to new UCB's


Daniel,

Re-running zipl as you plan on doing should take care of that aspect of your
move.  I can't address the volume label issues.  Of course, that only
applies if you chose cdl (or let it default) during dasdfmt processing.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jarboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Moving to new UCB's


Please excuse botching up terminology.  Running RH 7.2 in an LPAR.
The dasd addresses will be changing... is it enough to update
/etc/zipl.conf with the new addresses (like parameters="root=/dev/dasda1
dasd=6B40-6B43,6BC0-6BC3"), and rerun zipl before the last shutdown?  So
the next time the LPAR is activated it will come up using the new
addresses?

Also, is there a way to find out what the VOLSER's will look like to an
MVSish system?  I think the format during install may have tied the
label to the address of the volume.  Is there a way to change the label
from the linux side without losing data?  If after linux is shutdown,
they are changed on the MVS side, will that affect linux startup?
Linux-z/OS DFSMSdss Dump/Restore-HOWTO says something about fdasd
expecting the 24th character (type) to be an 'N' or 'S', but no other
restrictions were mentioned.  I'd like to change the labels to something
more generic than the volume address.

Thanks for any answers,
~ Daniel

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