I did try that but with no success. I'm pretty certain that the root cause is the absence of the 'Boot from FCP' feature on my z890, as the regulars here have suggested. As I say, the most telling clue is the instant drop into a CP program interrupt. I went so far as to code up bad zipl.conf and zfcp.conf info on my working z10 to see how that compared to the failing z890. On the z10 side, the IPL starts and runs for 20 seconds or so with normal startup messages before it finally drops into a kernel panic because of my purposely sabotaged zfcp info. The z890 halts the instant I enter 'IPL'.
Thanks all, I'll use this info to help make my bosses aware of the fact the z890 is due for an upgrade. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Ver Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 2:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Boot from FCP on vintage hardware Maybe you have to specifically enter a boot option number with the SET LOADDEV command? This was sometimes needed to make the selection for the boot menu, ex: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:15:29 set loaddev bootprog 2 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 16:16:40 q loaddev PORTNAME 50050763 00C1AFC4 LUN 57340000 00000000 BOOTPROG 2 BR_LBA 00000000 00000000 This would try to boot what would have been option 2 on the boot menu. - Mark Ver office: Building 710 / Room 2-RF-10 phone: (845) 435-7794 [tie 8 295-7794] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
