On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: You accessed the ssa disk system on the 2105 from other hosts, correct? What I am trying to do is install linux on the scsi disk in the system cage(cluster bay). So that instead of booting AIX to provide a fileserver to another host, it will boot linux on the 4 ps64-II's in each cluster bay. I might perhaps use nfs or such to provide a fileserver to the 9672, or my openmosix cluster, or both, but I think such hosts are wasted only as a SAN. Just my opinion. At very least they could be MPICH'ed to add available processing power to the alphas here. I'm thinking perhaps a kernel patched with the ppc64 patches then crosscompiled and put onto a boot floppy might work, taking advantage of the 2105's need for a boot floppy to reinstall AIX. If I can load a linux kernel on the floppy instead of the disk that the repair menu is asking for, then it should work grandly. The only issue I see is the kernel modules for the ssa controllers. Hopefully IBM will provide the source for such.
After that is done then I get to wind the transformer to provide the 3-phase to the 9672. > We use SuSE 8.1 SP03 31-bit Linux running in two IBM 2066-002 native LPARs > connected to the IBM ESS 2105 w/ FICON and sharing the DASD with 4 z/OS > LPARs and one z/VM LPAR. The z/VM LPAR is running 2 Linux guests that are > utilizing the IBM 2105 DASD as well. We reboot our Linux Systems once a > week and take a flashcopy of its DASD before starting it back up. This > takes about 8 seconds. We use FDR to take full volume backups at our > convenience after Linux is back up and operational. Hope this helps. > > To install it, we used the CD drive in the IBM 2066-002?s HMC. I have also > installed it from my desktop running a WARFTP server with no problems. > > Now, I do not know if any of this helps you out, but I hope it does. > > Peter > > > > shogunx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > 01/01/2005 11:17 AM > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > > To > [email protected] > cc > > Subject > Re: 2105 > > > > > > > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: > > > We have, had no problems, we use flashcopy for backups. It all works > > great. > > What distribution did you implement? It seems that the ppc64 kernel is > the only one that would work, given the ps64-II's in the shark. I am able > to get to the point of aix installation (serial terminal on S1, keyboard > interrupt during splash rs/6000 display). Should I just use > "boot-floppies" at that point, or is there another vector to get it to > boot a linux kernel? > > Scott > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > shogunx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > 12/29/2004 06:02 PM > > Please respond to > > Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> > > > > > > To > > [email protected] > > cc > > > > Subject > > 2105 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > Has anyone here natively installed linux on an ess 2105? > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > sleekfreak pirate broadcast > http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > sleekfreak pirate broadcast http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
