thanks, it looks good so far. I'll try a test IPL tomorrow, just for the learning experience. It won't work, because the ESCON is not defined to the LPAR till we can schedule a POR.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR? Bill, Since you're not using VM, yes, use the "tape" images. Note that this means the parmfile must be _one_ record long, with a max length of 1020 (??) bytes. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Beinert, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR? RedHat provide 2 sets of images, one for tape, one for DASD... 07/29/2002 02:57p 4,779,688 initrd.img 07/29/2002 01:28p 2,639,360 kernel.img 07/29/2002 02:59p 4,713,676 tapeinrd.img 07/29/2002 01:32p 2,631,168 tapekrnl.img I just want to confirm that the tape images are the ones I want to use... Bill -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR? Change the names to match what ever you called the files. The parmfile can be in ASCII or EBCDIC. (At least that _used_ to be true.) Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Beinert, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR? This is most excellent! I am installing Redhat, and the image files are different.. Should I replace SYS1.LINUX.TAPEIPL.IKR and SYS1.LINUX.INITRD with tapeinrd.img & tapekrnl.img? And will the boot process be expecting to read the parmfile in ASCII? Thanks Bill -----Original Message----- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR? Post, Mark K wrote: > wrote a document on how to write the 3 starter files to disk so that you can > IPL without using a tape, though. Take a look at > http://linuxvm.org/Info/l390link.html and see if you can find the one that points to http://www.rvdheij.com/linuxipl.html
