On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, James Peddycord wrote: > I will give that a shot, but now I am worried about bigger things! PAV was > turned on to ALL of our DASD last December. The linux instances that were > already running seem to be OK, but if a problem arises I will be left with > no support. > All of my boot disks have PAV enabled! > This looks like something to run up the IBM support ladder, because I think > that it is a priority to have the drivers updated for PAV.
Is it feasible to IPL from (virtual) tape? > > Thanks, > Jim > >Mark Post wrote: > > > >James, > > > >At a guess, it looks as though you did a CMS format and RESERVE on those > two > >minidisks. Correct? If so, that's one possible explanation for the > >difference. I don't think that will cause you any problems, but it might. > >I had some bad experiences with the earlier 2.4 DIAG drivers when playing > >with V-disks and swap disks. Try redoing the CMS formatting, but don't > >RESERVE it and see if that helps. > > > >As Jim points out, PAV-enabled volumes won't work as _boot_ volumes. > You'll > >need to turn that off for whatever minidisk you'll be booting from > (usually > >your root file system disk). > > > > > >Mark Post > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
