I must not be understand something. The Diag driver, which is the default, from what I've read, should be part of the SLES8 kernal. But I'm not sure that it is there, nor am I sure how to tell.
Here's what I show for lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P qeth 153756 2 qdio 33652 2 [qeth] ipv6 246300 -1 [qeth] lvm-mod 69676 0 (autoclean) dasd_eckd_mod 56548 4 dasd_mod 47680 5 [dasd_eckd_mod] ext3 92260 3 jbd 52724 3 [ext3] The disk map: 00: CP Q DASD 00: DASD 0190 3390 440RES R/O 107 CYL ON DASD D211 SUBCHANNEL = 0010 00: DASD 0191 3390 HCVMW1 R/W 10 CYL ON DASD D214 SUBCHANNEL = 0006 00: DASD 019D 3390 440RES R/O 146 CYL ON DASD D211 SUBCHANNEL = 0011 00: DASD 019E 3390 440RES R/O 250 CYL ON DASD D211 SUBCHANNEL = 0012 00: DASD 0200 3390 LXN301 R/W 1113 CYL ON DASD D201 SUBCHANNEL = 0007 00: DASD 0201 3390 LXN909 R/W 5000 CYL ON DASD D221 SUBCHANNEL = 0008 00: DASD 0202 3390 LXN909 R/W 5016 CYL ON DASD D221 SUBCHANNEL = 0009 00: DASD 0203 3390 LXN914 R/W 1200 CYL ON DASD D226 SUBCHANNEL = 000A 00: DASD 0291 3390 HCVMW1 R/O 100 CYL ON DASD D214 SUBCHANNEL = 0014 00: DASD 0300 9336 (VDSK) R/W 256000 BLK ON DASD VDSK SUBCHANNEL = 000B 00: DASD 0592 3390 440W01 R/O 67 CYL ON DASD D212 SUBCHANNEL = 0013 The results of swapgen before IPL exec swapgen 300 256000 (reuse) DIAG swap disk defined at virtual address 300 (31731 4K pages of swap space) I have dev 300 defined to zipl.conf, and I ran zipl. zipl.conf shows # Generated by YaST2 [defaultboot] default=ipl [ipl] target=/boot/zipl image=/boot/kernel/image ramdisk=/boot/initrd parameters="dasd=200-203,300 root=/dev/dasdb1" [dumpdasd] target=/boot/zipl dumpto=/dev/dasd?? [dumptape] target=/boot/zipl dumpto=/dev/rtibm0 cat of /proc/dasd/devices shows: pequot:/etc/init.d # cat /proc/dasd/devices 0200(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize: 4096, 200340 blocks, 782 MB 0201(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : active at blocksize: 4096, 900000 blocks, 3515 MB 0202(ECKD) at ( 94: 8) is dasdc : active at blocksize: 4096, 902880 blocks, 3526 MB 0203(ECKD) at ( 94: 12) is dasdd : active at blocksize: 4096, 216000 blocks, 843 MB 0300(none) at ( 94: 16) is dasde : unknown So... the conclusion I draw is that I missed something fundamental. For it to tell me that the device 300 is unknown tells me I've screwed something up and I suspect the diag driver is not loaded. So this is where I brickwall. Any clue would be most appreciated. -J. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
