Just some thoughts:
> edit /boot/parmfile on the Linux Guest
> dasd=0100,0101,0200,0201,0202,0203 root=/dev/dasda1 noinitrd
Mark said to re-run zipl which is correct, but if you run zipl with no
parameters, it reads from /etc/zipl.conf which is not where you are making
your changes. You could specify the four parameters to zipl as you had to
with silo, but it is more conventional to edit /etc/zipl.conf.
> fdasd /dev/dasdd
> select n and hit enter twice for the defaults (whole volume)
> select w to write the VTOC
'fdasd -a' creates a single partition - saves a couple of steps
Using that flag to fdasd and a shell for loop, you can do all the formats
in one step and go to lunch. For example:
# for i in d e f g
do
dasdfmt -b 4096 -y -f /dev/dasd$i
fdasd -a /dev/dasd$i
done
> mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/dasdd1 (dasde1 & dasdf1)
I may be wrong, but don't you want to create a filesystem of the whole
logical volume - not of each physical volume that will partake? And you
might want to make a reiserfs because it is journalled, but if you want raw
speed, ext2 is probably a bit faster.
> I created /dev/rtora/lvora under Yast1 as the Logical Volume....
If yast is getting the job done that's fine - I've always been partial to
the command line steps.
-Mike MacIsaac, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061
