Mark, I'm installing version 9.1 from the SLACK390 site. During the setup, it gives me image-2.4.21. I've run through the setup process several times to be sure I was getting all the selections, and the last several tries have been in newbie mode so that I get the full prompts and results. My background is from the z/OS end of the mainframe, not Unix/Linux, so the IPL record makes sense to me as the likely problem. I haven't seen where Slack would set an IPL record, nor found a tool that I could use to do it either. I've searched through the /bin, /sbin, and other installed directories and haven't come across SILO or zipl or anything that looks correct. So far, I have only installed the required items from the 'A' package.
Richard Subject: Re: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > First of all, which version of Slack/390? Second, were you prompted to install a kernel? Did you pick one? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Henn Richard D. Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state? While IPL'ed from an install tape, I've run through the install of the required applications from the 'A' series of SLACK390, and completed the setup and configuration script. When I halt my system and attempt to IPL/boot from the volume that has the /boot directory on it, my Linux partition goes into a disabled wait state. I think that the problem is that my volume is not a valid IPL device. I've read the IBM Redbook Linux for S/390 (SG24-4987), which has you use the SILO command to write the IPL record onto the volume. I can't find anything similar to this in the Slack390 product. Has anyone seen this or know a way around this? Thanks, Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
