[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I am having trouble implementing vdisk (SWAP) on an SLES9 > Linux instance. > > I can do an insmod of the appropriate dasd_fba_mod, but at boot time, > I get the message that it cannot find the abovementioned. It's eckd > relative is there, as I want to utilise fba (vdisk) for a swap > device, this is not much use to me. > > Do I have to run mkinitrd and zipl after > amending /etc/sysconfig/kernel to include fba support??. > Yes. The SuSE mkinitrd includes a minimal subset of all drivers only, just enough the get the system started.
> I would have thought that SuSE would have included these drivers as > standard (default). > Why? When there's no fba disk configured there is hardly any sense in including the module, or? > We have a pre-GA SLES9 that works fine with vdisk, when I issue an > lsmod command the dasd_fba_mod is there as it should be. > Tsts. I guess I shouldn't even talk to you, then :-) > Any ideas? > Oh, plenty of :-) HTH, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG S390 & zSeries MaxfeldstraÃe 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 NÃrnberg http://www.suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
