__________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840
"Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 01/10/2005 08:24 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: ### URGENT ### Please help - Kernel panic - can not mount roo t That came from the last time you ran zipl. Along with the pointers to the initrd and kernel, a pointer to the parmfile is written as well. What's in your parmfile _now_ is not necessarily what was in it when zipl was run. If a change was made, and zipl was not run, then the pointer is still pointing to the old inode containing the previous version of the file. I found it. The /etc/zipl.conf refers to /dev/dasdk1 like this: # Generated by YaST2 [defaultboot] default=ipl [ipl] target=/boot/zipl image=/boot/kernel/image ramdisk=/boot/initrd parameters="dasd=2300-230F root=/dev/dasdk1" [dumpdasd] target=/boot/zipl dumpto=/dev/dasd?? [dumptape] target=/boot/zipl dumpto=/dev/rtibm0 I am assuming that this is the one supplying the $dasd parameter to the linuxrc script in initrd. Ok, now I can fix this. However, how do I use zipl.conf to boot with alternate configurations? Thanks If sufficient changes are made to the file system, that inode will eventually get over-written and your system will have even more severe problems then next time you try to IPL. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ### URGENT ### Please help - Kernel panic - can not mount roo t -snip- I am puzzled as to how when IPLing from 2300, Linux actually wants to boot from 230A. Somehow 230A is genned into initrd or it is remembering being IPLed from 230A sometime in the past. It is certainly saying <4>Kernel command line: dasd=2300-230F root=/dev/dasdk1 in the boot.msg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
