On 3/3/06, Tucker, Karl (Non Employee) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the process of doing an install of Marist Linux in an LPAR. It > is not possible to use a tape IPL so I
> searched the internet and found a procedure that I believe originated at > SUSE. This procedure is a boot program which is assembled, installed on > DASD and followed by the 3 IPL files which normally go on tape. I > substituted the Marist files for the SUSE files. I adjusted the space > info in the JCL to accomodate the That's mine... http://vm.marist.edu/~rvdheij/linuxipl.html It's pretty dated but I think it should still work with the current kernel and ramdisk. Make sure you have not tampered with the files during transfer and that you get the record format right. But when you can have the volume (temporarily) online on another LPAR, it might be easier to just use a Linux server somewhere to write the bootstrap on a volume... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
