See: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/abstracts/redp3871.html
This Redpaper describes a procedure to clone a root filesystem residing on an FCP-attached SCSI disk. Cloning SCSI disks that act as a Linux root filesystem requires special processing (compared to cloning ECKD DASD). An initial ramdisk containing the zfcp device driver is required to IPL from SCSI. The ramdisk also contains the FCP device mapping needed to access the root filesystem on the SCSI disk. When the filesystem is copied, a new initial ramdisk must be created on the cloned disk. This ramdisk must map the cloned SCSI disk as the root filesystem (and not the filesystem on the original master SCSI disk). We illustrate the steps using a SUSE SLES9 Linux distribution running as a guest under z/VM. The procedure also applies to Linux running in an LPAR on zSeries. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
