Wouldn't you need to keep the ECKD system around for maintenance? Granted, you would not need any ECKD in the other guests.
-- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Applications & Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ECKD-less system? > > > I haven't tried this, so I might be totally smoking crack, but: > > Is there any reason you couldn't build the FCP driver into the kernel, > and then IPL from an NSS. You'd need an ECKD-based system to > build the > inital NSS but then once it was done I don't see why you couldn't IPL > from NSS (no initrd, of course) and mount all your disks as SCSI. > > Adam >
