On Wednesday 24 September 2003 16:50, Adam Thornton wrote:
> 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.
Correct. You could also IPL from VM virtual reader devices or from a
shared dasd device when using the VM load parameter patch. Note that
the your IPL disk needs to have the kernel on it but not necessarily
the root file system.
Of course, none of this works on LPAR installations and VM always
needs DASD devices to run on itself.
Arnd <><
