You will boot from whatever volume you've specified in the /etc/zipl.conf file.
"Christmas is a funny season. What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?" Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Mark Post > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SuSE 8 Installation problem on z800 > > I would recommend re-IPLing from your boot tape. Then, once the system is > up > 1. insmod dasd_mod dasd=2300-230f > 2. insmod dasd_eckd_mod > 3. mount your root file system on /mnt > 4. mount any other file systems you created on /mnt/whatever > 5. chroot /mnt > 6. cd /boot > 7. make sure you've got a k_deflt-something directory and that there is > image file in it > 8. make sure /etc/zipl.conf has in it what you expect in the way of DASD > parms, etc. > 9. re-run the "zipl" command > 10. exit > 11. umount all your file systems > 12. re-IPL from 2300 > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Ranga Nathan > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SuSE 8 Installation problem on z800 > > > We have completed the SuSE 8 installation on an LPAR. But we are not able > to IPL. It goes into wait status. Looks like the bootstrap is missing. > We allocated 16 x 3390 volumes (0x2300 to 0x230F) and the fitst one > contains the boot partition. > > When IPLing, we specify 0x2300 as the boot device and no load params. > > What we get is the message: > An error was detected in partition LINUX. Central Processing (CP) 00 is in > a disabled wait state. The disabled wait PSW is 000A00000000000F. > Central storage bytes 0 - 7 are: 000A00000000000F. > > Anyone encountered this before? > > We tried to reinstall and in yast took the "Boot from ..." option, which > complained about something not mounted and killed my SSH session. > >
