On Thursday, 11/30/2006 at 01:03 EST, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sir Alan saith: > I don't understand why IBM (still!) does not present the DVD (and other > HMC resources like it) via the I/O interface. You can't tell me that > there's a technical restriction that the DVD cannot be made to look like a > 9336. Given a 9336 I/O model, having an IPLable starter system stamped > onto DVD is then trivial.
Well, I guess that depends on what you call a "restriction". The machines do not have emulated I/O in them. The I/O processors only know about things plugged into the I/O cage; the DVD drive is part of the SE/HMC complex and is not an I/O device with a connector in the I/O cage. z/VM 5.2 boots from the DVD with a ramdisk. That seems like an IPLable starter system to me, with no 9336 I/O model required. 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
