I'm guessing (and I do mean guessing) that your kernel got over-written by a new one and/or the initrd wasn't re-created as it should have been, and/or zipl wasn't re-run after it was all over.
IPL from your installation tape. Insmod the dasd_mod module with your DASD device numbers (dasd=xxx,yyy,zzz) Mount the file systems on those volumes chroot to the mount point cd /boot look at what's there, see if it's new re-run mkinitrd re-run zipl exit from the chroot umount your DASD file systems try to re-IPL Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of conway, heather Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with S/390 & SuSE's Online Update Hi All, I am urgently hoping that you can help me out. I am working with SLES 8 on a z800 and attempted to perform an Online Update via YaST2 on the Linux LPAR and now it no longer boots. The config is as follows: z800 LPAR allocated for the Linux partition 2 3390 CKD devices have been allocated for boot and swap I successfully performed the installation to the LPAR and was running v2.4.19-3suse-SMP kernel. I then ran the Online Update via YaST2. The Online Update required that the YOU RPM be updated first. I updated this RPM first, then logged out of YaST2 and logged back in. I then reran the Online Update and updated the to v2.4.21-215 the other week and to v2.4.21-231 today. In both cases, when I went back to the HMC and tried to activate the LPAR, the Linux partition fails to boot. The last time I ended up starting from scratch and reinstalling.... The error reported is as follows: Incorrect program status word loop Hardware Messages --> Problem Analysis--> Problem Description: EAn error was detected in partition <LINUX>. Central processor (CP) 00 is looping due to switching between program status words (PSWs) that are not valid. The program status word (PSW) is 0000000000000000. How would you recommend that I fix this problem so that I don't have to reinstall? I had tried to use the installation CD to boot into the existing installation, but it wasn't able to recover the installation....are there certain steps I should follow? If so, what are they? Thanks for your help. Heather ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
