> So...at this point in time... > is there anything I can do to recover this situation and be > able to access > the CDL / Linux files > from the MVS side????
You need to remove the indexed VTOC on the OS/390 side, then use DSF on the VM side to do a CPVOL FORMAT on the physical volume (at least cyl 0, anyway), then do CPVOL ALLOC to allocate the entire volume as PERM space. You should be able to bring the volume online to both VM and OS/390 at that point. You can then define the minidisk and do the SLES install. > And..are you saying that if I formatted the MDISK volume (as defined > below)... using CPVOL FORMAT > then MVS would have been able to successfully access this MDISK ?? No. It's the label in cyl 0 that matters to OS/390. I think the indexed VTOC is making OS/390 expect something that isn't there. > MDISK 151 3390 0001 3338 LXAD41 MR > If so...is it too late now? You can DDR the existing minidisk off to tape and then put it back after you fix the VTOC and allocation on the pack. Since the contents of the minidisk are what Linux sees, it should be happy with that solution. -- db
