On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:58:00PM -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: | Confusion abounds. The Hardware Management Console (HMC) has a CD/DVD | drive in it that can read specially-formatted discs as Mark describes. It | does not emulate a tape drive but is a function built directly into the | machine. That is, the HMC drive does not appear as a device within the | I/O subsystem. Booting a partition from this drive causes a binary image | to be loaded from the drive into memory WITHOUT the use of traditional IPL | processing. You cannot boot the HMC DVD drive into a second-level guest | because there is no way to "give" (from the h/w perspective) the HMC DVD | to a partition and, hence, no way to use it with a guest. | | 3422 tape emulation using Optical Media Attach (OMA) format is done on | Multiprise 3000, FLEX-ES, and the IBM 2074-2. IBM-provided CDs (not | DVDs!!) will contain a /tapes directory and a TDF. Things on here are | IPLable using traditional IPL processing. Because it is a real device, | you can attach it to a second-level guest and IPL the guest from it.
So which TDF file does it default to using for an IPL? | You have to decide which kind of device you're going to be using: An | emulated tape or the HMC DVD drive. How you use them and how you build | them are waaaay different. Thanks for helping to clarify more of this. This seems to be worthy of a web page of its own. So if I have these files from Slack390: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/slack390/slack390-10.0/kernels 2628> ls -lG total 12960 -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 857 Feb 17 00:39 CHECKSUMS.s390.md5 -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 1016 Feb 17 00:38 FILE_LIST.s390 -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 9284531 Feb 16 11:41 initrd.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 45 Jul 5 2004 parmfile.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 7402 Feb 7 00:02 parmfile.values.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 326 Jul 5 2004 tape.sample.parmfile.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 2107648 Jul 4 2004 tapeinstall.image-2.4.26.gcc-3.3.4.img -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 452 Jul 5 2004 vm.sample.parmfile.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 phil 2107648 Jul 4 2004 vminstall.image-2.4.26.gcc-3.3.4.img [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/slack390/slack390-10.0/kernels 2629> I could use them with the OMA tape emulation. But what about with HMC? Now it sounds like the HMC drive won't be usable for what I want to do. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
