The question I have is whether the read-only root file system you have is an initrd, or real DASD. I would think it's an initrd. In which case, you should be able to mount your real root file system, chroot to it, and fix zipl.conf.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Vance Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I updated zipl.conf incorrectly :( Hi, Thanks for all of the responses yesterday in regards to the > 26 disks question. We were working on this today, but unfortunately I updated the zipl.conf incorrectly. On the "dasd=" parameter, I added a comma after the last device range. This should have been a blank. The ZIPL was run, and no errors were reported. When the system is now booted, I can see that the kernel command line has a comma before the root statement. The system stops after mounting the root as read-only. Is there a way of overriding the command line and inserting the correct line? Even if we update the original file, we would still be stuck since the zipl command writes it to the boot area. Do we need to bring up the RAM image and rebuild the boot area? Thanks, Ken Vance Amadeus Kernel command line: dasd=201-20a,240-243,250-253,260-263,270-273,root=/dev/dasd a1 . . IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 128Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 648k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 14k freed # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
