Should the parameters in /etc/zipl.conf look like: root=/dev/dasda1 ro noinitrd
Russell Jones ANPAC System Programmer [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Clone SUSE 10 When you installed you SLES 10 system, you took the defaults for FSTAB. Change you base system: yast System Partitioner, yes edit each disk fstab options change Device ID to Device Path, ok ok apply quit Then: In one session: cat /etc/fstab In another session joe /etc/zipl.conf modify the parameters = "root=~~~~~ may be in multiple places save mkinitrd zipl Boot to put in effect Now flashcopy will produce a bootable copy. Now reclone your system. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> "Jones, Russell" <[email protected]> 1/27/2009 3:54 PM >>> I do mean root file system. Here is my zipl.conf. I don't see any device address in this file. *********************************************************************** # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Nov 25 11:10:32 CST 2008 [defaultboot] defaultmenu = menu ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### [SLES_10_SP1] image = /boot/image-2.6.16.54-0.2.10-default target = /boot/zipl ramdisk = /boot/initrd-2.6.16.54-0.2.10-default,0x1000000 parameters = "root=/dev/disk/by-id/ccw-STK.02000000008176.0022.2a-part1 TERM=dumb" :menu default = 1 prompt = 1 target = /boot/zipl timeout = 10 1 = SLES_10_SP1 2 = ipl ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: ipl### [ipl] image = /boot/image target = /boot/zipl ramdisk = /boot/initrd,0x1000000 parameters = "root=/dev/disk/by-id/ccw-STK.02000000008176.0022.2a-part1 TERM=dumb" ************************************************************************ *** Russell Jones ANPAC System Programmer [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Clone SUSE 10 >>> On 1/27/2009 at 4:38 PM, "Jones, Russell" <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > I want 322b to be my ipl volume and also bring 322f online at startup. By IPL volume, do you mean root file system? (The two are completely different things.) What do you have in /etc/zipl.conf? Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
