Paul,

If you have access to a installation Linux, try this:
1 - start the installation as if you would reinstall from scratch
2 - somewhere in the installation, the installer will activate the dasds for
you. as soon as it happens, drop to a shell (connect another session, and
under sles or rhel you will have a shell awaiting you)
3 - mount your disks somewhere, /tmp/new for example... you will need to
chroot into there... (more info on chrooting, see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/chroot.xml. it's for gentoo but it's
the same thing)
4 - cd /tmp/new && chroot .
5 - now you are in you old system. edit your config files to ensure
everything is fine (/etc/fstab, /etc/modprobe.conf, etc)
6 - cd /boot and create a new initrd with mkinitrd
7 - run a zipl to recreate the boot record
8 - exit chroot, unmount the filesystem, reboot your system
9 - if your system still not boots, gave us some error messages... if boots,
you owe me one cent... ;)

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Paul Meier <[email protected]> wrote:

> So can anyone help me on this? I am still stuck. When I copy the volumes
> and
> then IPL from the new UCB It will only recognize the old volumes but I have
> changed everything in zipl.conf and fstab.
>
> One of my thoughts is that I need to change dasd_mod. During boot I get
> these messages:
>
> Starting udevd
> Creating devices
> Loading dasd_mod
> Loading dasd_eckd_mod
> *Activating DASDs: 0.0.e3ee:0*
>
> This tells me there is something I still need to change, however I do not
> know where to edit dasd_mod. I assumed it was in /etc/modprob.conf but it
> is
> not. How can I change this to activate the new DASD at UCB 0.0.4058
>
> I have read Mark Posts response to this. But I do not know how to "update
> your parmfile" is this something different than zipl.conf and fstab?
>
> http://linuxvm.org/info/HOWTOs/dumprest.html
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Paul Meier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Oh and we are not moving the LPAR but the DASD we are booting from.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Paul Meier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the heads up. The addresses of the disks will be different
> and
> >> we do not have VM. Will changing the references to by-path allow me to
> >> change then the UCB addresses to the correct new ones? The disk will be
> >> completely mirrored over to a new one on a different box.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, David Boyes <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> >  What would I need to change to make sure this works.
> >>>
> >>> First thing, download and run
> >>> www.sinenomine.net/download/sane-dasd-update to change the by-id
> >>> references you have in your /etc/fstab to by-path BEFORE you lose the
> old
> >>> disks.  The way things are now, your system is irrevocably linked to
> the
> >>> physical disk ids it's installed on, and it WILL NOT BOOT if you copy
> it to
> >>> another disk.  If you can, get them to define the disks at the same
> >>> addresses in the new LPAR. Then you can shut down the Linux system
> >>> completely, and use ADRDSSU or DDR (if you have VM) to copy the disks
> over.
> >>>
> >>> FSTAB has entries but they seem to be only the last two digits of the 4
> >>> character hex UCB. For example:
> >>>
> >>> /dev/disk/by-id/ccw-HTC.55000000010957.4c14.ee-part1
> >>> Where the UCB is E4EE.
> >>>
> >>> Second I know I can use vgexport for the lvm, but would that be all?
> >>>
> >>> Lastly how can I check if hyper-pav is enabled?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> -Paul
> >>>
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