A brute force method for SLES 9 would be to edit the initial ramdisk's /linuxrc script to insert lines like /sbin/dasd_configure 0.0.16zz 1 0
after the the group of lines that now say /sbin/dasd_configure 0.0.15xx 1 0 For each zz in 16zz substitute its corresponding xx from 15xx so the dasd's will be activated in the correct order: dasda dasdb etc. then re-run zipl and reboot off the 16zz address that corresponds to the 15xx dasd. See IBM DeveloperWorks url, for 'Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview' http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html?ca=dgr It'll tell you how to unpack your initial ramdisk to get at /linuxrc script and how to remake the initial ramdisk. It's not difficult. -------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mansell Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Changing DASD addresses A colleague had a test Linux server running in a partition on one machine, but has now been moved to a different machine where the same DASD devices are mapped to a different address range (16xx as opposed to 15xx). Needless to say, booting his Linux server doesn't result in a great deal of success. Assuming he is able, temporarily, to revert to the original addresses and bring his system up, is there some way to tell Linux about the new addresses? Many thanks, Ray Mansell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
