On Thursday, 03/16/2006 at 01:32 CST, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He envisions the start up of WebSphere within the Linux as a part of the
> operating system initialization. I do not. It's a minor philosophical > disagreement. In any case, what I have been having difficulty in finding > specific documentation on how to pass a parameter to linux at VM guest > startup that I can then read during system startup to take or not take an > action. Be this a the loadparm or what not I don't think there is any built-in support for passing queryable parameters to Linux at IPL except for boot menu selection. > Both the autolog command and the xautolog command help files seem to indicate > that they can pass a paramter to the virtual machine that gets logged on > but is that enough to get it all the way to the linux kernel where I can then > act on it? Any specifics on this would be greatly appreciated. That won't work. The commands on [X]AUTOLOG are really designed for CMS virtual machines (to satisfy the initial VM READ). I would DEFINE 1403 001 TAG DEV 001 PARM1=value1 Then IPL Linux and use hcp (cpint) or vmcp (builtin) 'tag query device 001' to extract the data. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
