I didn't see any mention of an initrd in there. Do you have one for your existing system(s)? Which version of SLES is this?
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Shilson Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Can't Resize Root Disk I am trying to move my root disk from a big disk to a smaller one. The new root disk won't reboot. Does anyone have suggestions? Here is what I did: Shut down my target system From a second system, CP LINK to the old root system and the new root disk dasdfmt -b 4096 -v -f /dev/dasdd fdasd -a -b 4096 /dev/dasdd mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/dasdd1 mount old root system as /oldroot mount new disk as /mnt cp --preserve=all --recursive /oldroot/* /mnt/ cd /mnt/etc Create the zipl.ths.conf file below. cd /mnt/sbin ./zipl -c /mnt/etc/zipl.ths.conf cd / umount /mnt umount /oldroot CP DET the two minidisks Modify the directory of the targe system to swap the addresses of the old and new root disks. Boot the target system - Program check loop <newroot>/etc/zipl.ths.conf: # Generated by YaST2 [defaultboot] default=ipl [ipl] target=/mnt/boot/zipl image=/mnt/boot/kernel/image parameters="dasd=201-20F root=/dev/dasda1 noinitrd" <newroot>/etc/fstab: /dev/dasda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/dasdc1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/dasdb1 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 Zipl Results: L342861Z:/mnt/sbin # ./zipl -c /mnt/etc/zipl.ths.conf Using config file '/mnt/etc/zipl.ths.conf' (from command line) Building bootmap '/mnt/boot/zipl/bootmap' Adding IPL section 'ipl' (default) Preparing boot device: dasdd (0204). Done. Console on reboot: cpi: no system name specified NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. cryptoapi: loaded kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-94, errno = 2 VFS: Cannot open root device "dasda1" or 5e:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 80230D08 tom - - - - - - - - - - - - Toto, I have a feeling we're not in the mainframe world any more. _/) Tom Shilson ~~~~~ GEDW & VM System Services Aloha Tel: 651-733-7591 tshilson at mmm dot com Fax: 651-736-7689 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
