I would assume that there is a reason Yast doesn't do the mkinitrd and zipl for you after adding/changing volumes. I also would assume that knowing the reason why, is one of the things that experts know (I'm not in that class on Linux).
It seems that you can't reboot if you don't do mkinitrd and zipl (per your experience). And I can say that if you only do the zipl, you can't reboot. It seems that Yast is just letting people shoot them selves in the foot, by not either automatically doing it, or putting out a message to remind us to do it. So, to those "experts" out there..... Why would you NOT want to do mkinitrd and zipl after adding a LVM via Yast? Can you mess yourself up even more if it was automatically done? Perhaps there are situations that you don't want to do the mkinitrd and zipl? (Notice, I keep saying mkinitrd and zipl. This is just a reinforcement technique to make me remember that both are necessary. But it seems like, in the old days, a couple years ago, I only needed to do the zipl...) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (still in the learning mode) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/10/2006 7:10 AM >>> After setting up an LVM through YaST and rebooting the Linux image would not boot correctly. It was a while ago since I tried it, so I don't remember what happened exactly, but from what I remember it came up without network support and with some other errors. I asked an IBM guy about it and he is the one who told me that he knew of others that had the same problem and that Novell had a patch for it. Now that I read your email and think about it, I never ran mkinitrd and zipl after I used YaST to create the LVM. I just assumed that YaST did that. That may have been were I went wrong. I'll try it on an image and see. I am curious as to whether or not YaST is supposed to run mkinitrd and zipl, and if that is the fix in the patch. Ryan Stewart Indian River Community College ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
