It is absolutely feasible, and one way to ensure some consistency (sort of). Marist College writes a Linux/390 kernel to the 191 disk of their guests, which punch it to the reader and IPL from it when the guests get logged on.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem: DIAG vs ECKD - Yast hangs 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?
