I want to thank everyone for there help and suggestions.  I tried the
procedures below but I was unsucessful.

Thanks again.....

Thomas L. Geyer
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Fax:(330) 471-4034


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael MacIsaac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "invalidate: busy buffer" While Booting


Tom,

>If anybody has any ideas what is going on and how to fix the problem I
would
>appreciate the assistance. Or point me to documention on thei problem.

Here's an *idea* (I'm sure you've googled for "invalidate: busy buffer"):

 - Carve out another VM ID pointing to the same DASDs that comprise the
logical volume.
 - Log off the ID with the failing Linux
 - Install a different distro on the new ID.  I'd suggest SLES-8. Don't
worry about LVM DASDs for the install.
 - When you have a clean install, add the LVM DASDs interactively and to
/etc/zipl.conf; run zipl
 - Reboot and watch Linux come up - hopefully /etc/init.d/bootl.vm and the
new kernel will be able to make better sense of the logical volume
 - Report your findings here

          -Mike MacIsaac, IBM  mikemac at us.ibm.com   (845) 433-7061

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