Now, if there was only an Escon attached reader.....
Just think of the card deck and resulting floor sort....
I remember IPL'ing an IBM 1130 via cards. Just one hand full. The Suse Linux 8.1 starter system is over 20,000 cards (2 cases, 5 boxes per case). If you actually had the entire system on cards, could you ever, actually, IPL?
Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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 <><
