James,
What is the output to uname -a?
My current is 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP #1 Tue Oct 30 22:39:07 GMT 2001 s390
Betsie
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From: "James Melin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: fdasd never ends
> 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
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