Sue, use dasd_configure command. It brings device online and also makes sure it will come online after next IPL. for example dasd_configure 0.0.0105 1
=================== Marian Gasparovic =================== "The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." --- On Thu, 1/7/10, Sue Sivets <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Sue Sivets <[email protected]> > Subject: sles11 - adding dasd & yast problem > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 4:18 AM > I have just finished installing Sles > 11, and now I need to add two > mini-disks. The first is read only, the second is > read-write. I tried > running mkinitrd & zipl like I would for sles10, but it > doesn't seem to > be working. Mkinitrd is only writing 6 or 8 lines to the > console (it > writes almost a screen full on sles10), and it seems to be > changing the > disk identifier from dasdc & dasdd to dasda or dasdb so > that /etc/fstab > ends up being correct for the current ipl, but not the > next. I guess > zipl is working, at least the system seems to boot. If I > run mkinitrd & > zipl manually, the new disks don't seem to be picked up and > added to the > dasd configuration so they are avail for the next ipl. If I > use > yast->hardware->dasd to activate them, then the dasd > id is changed, and > the disks seem to be varied online at the next ipl. > > How do I get the dasd added and mounted at each ipl? > Can I add dasd without using yast and if so how? What > commands do I need > to run? > > Problem #2 - When I try to run yast2, I get an error > message that Xlib: > extension "RANDR" missing on display "localhost:10.0" along > with a bunch > of other messages. I thought I saw something about > Gnome in an earlier > error message, and I did not install either Gnome of KDE > since I was > doing a z/linux install, and neither of these have worked > very well on > previous sles versions. yast seems to work so far, but I > much prefer yast2. > > Can anyone shed any light on either of these problems? > > Thank you > > Sue Sivets > > -- > Suzanne Sivets > Systems Programmer > Innovation Data Processing > 275 Paterson Ave > Little Falls, NJ 07424-1658 > 973-890-7300 > Fax 973-890-7147 > [email protected] > > > > This email (and attachments, if any) is confidential and > access by anyone other than the addressee(s) is > unauthorized. We would appreciate your notifying the > sender and [email protected] > immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this > message. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
