There is only one NFS background mount and yes, we waited for 45 minutes but no timeout and no prompt. We do not have our installation media up there but we do have some other Linux systems that we backup but do not normally restore, but unfortunately they all have the NFS background mount except for one. I might have to recover that one, link some DASD, setroot, and chkconfig nfs off, and hope that my problem really was NFS. I detached the osa from the vm guest and hoped that will cause some early timeouts or failures? Nothing! I recovered a SLES10 that does not use NFS and it IPLed fine except again, no prompt.
As far as backing up, we shut all our Linux guests down, our z/VM system down, deactivate z/VM, flash the DASD, activate z/VM, IPL, and start our guest. We then back up the flashed DASD from z/OS using FDR Full Volume. Is it something in z/VM? Peter Ron Foster at Baldor-IS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 04/07/2008 04:37 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well Peter, Did you bring a copy of your installation media? Could you boot it and then look at your restored system? How many NFS mounts are there? Are you saying you have waited 45 minutes and not gotten a message indicating that one of your NFS mounts has been backgrounded or timed out? Have you tried setting up some system with the same IP address as your NFS server, but not running NFS. That way instead of timing out, you can get something like connection request rejected. (I forget the exact message). In some cases, this can hurry things along. By the way, how did you backup and restore? Ron Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: > We are at Sungard performing our yearly contingency test. Normally we > restore our Linux DASD and IPL our Linux guest as a guest from Sungard?s > z/VM system. We then logon to our Linux guest from z/VM, change the > network configuration, reboot, and we are good to go. Usually we have to > wait 10 minutes for NFS to timeout before receiving the Linux LOGON prompt > on the VM console. This has worked for us many times. > > However, this year, we never receive the LINUX logon prompt. Linux IPLs > fine, everything seems ok, however, we do not receive the Linux logon > prompt. We wait as long as 45 minutes but never see the prompt. Without > the prompt, we cannot logon and make any changes at all? > > The z/VM directory used at Sungard is the same that we have used in > previous tests. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions. > > Peter > This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is > proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright > belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates ("PHI"). This Email is > intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If > you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for > delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified > that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately > notify the sender and permanently delete this Email and any copies. PHI > policies expressly prohibit employees from making defamatory or offensive > statements and infringing any copyright or any other legal right by Email > communication. PHI will not accept any liability in respect of such > communications. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 This Email message and any attachment may contain information that is proprietary, legally privileged, confidential and/or subject to copyright belonging to Pepco Holdings, Inc. or its affiliates ("PHI"). This Email is intended solely for the use of the person(s) to which it is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete this Email and any copies. PHI policies expressly prohibit employees from making defamatory or offensive statements and infringing any copyright or any other legal right by Email communication. PHI will not accept any liability in respect of such communications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
