On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 07:03, Alikhani wrote: > machine we see the virtual number(800) attache to this disk , I restart > my machine , I also added the number 0800 in /boot/parmfile and reboot > the system but I cant see this disk on /proc/dasd/devices . I want to > know how can i do this . I need to mount / filesystem of old machine to > my machine to access to /etc/shadow for disabling root password .
You should not edit /boot/parmfile but the line in /etc/zipl.conf and run zilo again to write the things to the boot records. Alternatively, you can echo add device 800 > /proc/dasd/devices to make Linux pick up the new device. > Meanwhile I don't know anything abot the VM and I have a VM admin for > doing something I need , he attache the disk number of old machine to my > machine but I don't know how to access it from linux . This way works, but I find it often easier to start the install system with ramdisk and mount my disks into that to fix the problem. Rob
