Vic,

The SuSEconfig step did the trick. I had to ddr the LVM volumes to tape and
restore from the tapes, but now I am able to boot the instance.

Thanks to all for the help and for pointing me in the right direction to get
this job accomplished!

Loren Charnley, Jr.
IT Systems Engineer
Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(704) 847-6961 x 2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Vic Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SuSE 2.2.16 kernel to test

Loren, I'm pretty sure that with a 2.2.16 kernel it's the "SUSE 7"
system that actually predated SLES 7 in the s390 world -- might even
be the 6.4 "beta", eek!  :)

On 20/04/2006, at 3:13am, Hall, Ken (GTI) wrote:

> Pre-SLES8 systems used /etc/rc.config to configure everything
> except routing information.
>
> The three files you need to update are:
>
> /etc/rc.config
> /etc/route.conf
> /etc/hosts
>
> There are a couple of others that have to change if the host name
> changes, but if only the IP address and gateway are changing, these
> are the ones.

In those early releases, changes to /etc/rc.config don't take effect
until after you run "SuSEconfig".  I think that SuSEconfig also
manages /etc/hosts (but maybe that's just on later releases), so I'd
suggest making what changes need to be made in /etc/rc.config, run
SuSEconfig, and see what else needs to change.

Make sure that *somewhere* you update your default gateway address.
I think that's elsewhere in /etc/rc.config, but might be in /etc/
route.conf.

You can use the mount-the-copied-disks-to-a-running-system method,
but you will need to mount all the copied system's disks -- at the
right mount points -- and chroot into the copied system in order to
run SuSEconfig.  Example:

mount /dev/dasdk1 /mnt/copy
mount /dev/dasdl1 /mnt/copy/usr
mount /dev/dasdm1 /mnt/copy/var
chroot /mnt/copy                # <-- all file accesses are now from the
copied
system's disks
vi /etc/rc.config
SuSEconfig
exit                            # <-- return to your running system
umount /mnt/copy/usr /mnt/copy/var /mnt/copy

Replace the DASD names with the actual names you get on your system,
of course, and don't forget to detach the disks from your running
system when you're done.

Cheers,
Vic Cross

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