Betsie - IPL your initrd from the Patch CD. The kernal that is loaded from
CD 1 of that distribution really cannot handle 3390-mod 9 volumes. IPL the
initrd from that patch cd and do the install of your choice. When you have
installed all the packages but BEFORE you commit to finishing the installm
you will have to get a new kernel in place from the patch CD before you can
IPL that system successfully.
While YAsT was running, but before you commit your changes, you should open
another FTP session to that machine. Change directories via 'cd
/mnt//usr/bin/ftp' and start the ftp client (since its not part of the
initial ramdisk) by typing ./ftp
Then FTP to a place where you have the patch CD either mounted, or a copy
of it available and ftp the kernel off of that disk to some place like /opt
or something. I forget the name of the package so look it up in the patch
CD tree structure. Once you've located it, bring it into your system and
run an rpm -i {kernel package name} so that your kernel is updated
properly.
That's basically wat I had to do.
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Hi,
SuSE SLES7, 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP
Ran dasdfmt on a 3390-9 but fdasd never seems to finish.
I ran fdasd /dev/dasdc, picked option 'n' for native linux, checked it
with the print option and then hit 'w' to write the VTOC.
messages:
writing VTOC...
rereading partition table ...
<6> dasdc:VOL1/ 0X0202: dasdc
and then sits there for ever. I have only the main console and can't
telnet in to run TOP.
Any suggestions? Anyone else have problems with fdasd and model 9's with
this level of Linux/390?
Betsie
