On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:30, James Melin wrote: > I have created copies of my original system, and mounted them in approriate > relative positions under /mnt (/mnt/var /mnt/usr, etc). > > This makes my 'new IPL device' address b213 - which is mounted as dasdg1 > > in /mnt/boot I have the original parm file. Yast, of course moved my swap > device to dasda.. Anyway.... > > rockhopper:/mnt/boot # more parmfile > dasd=a240,b217,b219,b21a,b218,a241 root=/dev/dasdb1 noinitrd > rockhopper:/mnt/boot # > > I know to change all the device numbers to their corresponding deviuces, > but root= parameter?do I leave it as /dev/dasdb1 and run zipl, or do I > change it to /dev/dasdg1 for the running of zipl. I just wanna make sure > the boot record goes to the right place.
Whatever you make it, that has to be where it's found at IPL. It *also* has to be where it's found when you run zipl to get the boot signature correctly written. Adam
