James, The /boot directory can be on any physical disk on your system. That then becomes the device number you IPL from. A lot of people have it in their root file system, which by default will wind up on /dev/dasdb1 on a SuSE system. The "df" command will show you all your currently mounted file systems. "/" should be at the top.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ZIPL - confused and dazed I have my system built. all that remains is for me to run zipl and I should be able to build it. I don't know where /boot is supposed to be . I cannot seem to locate my root volume even though cat /proc/dasd/devices indicates the volume is available. don't I need to be able to run zipl from the root volume of the new file system I just installed? What should I really put in /etc/zipl.conf? I'm basically staring a tthe 2-3 pages of the SuSE manual and going 'this assumes I know more than I do' I wouldn't normalyl give up so soon and ask this fairly benign question but we're doing a power-on reset on sunday. So I have tomorrow to get this thing to IPL-able or start over and re-install monday.
