Before you execute zipl -V, insert in /etc/modprobe.conf the dasd adress
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2010/3/29 Mark Post <[email protected]>

> >>> On 3/29/2010 at 09:29 AM, Christian Paro <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I believe that for SLES 11 zipl.conf is no longer used to determine which
> > dasd to online at boot. Instead, however, you can run `dasd_configure
> > 0.0.0210 1` before you run mkinitrd and zipl, and the specified disk
> should
> > be set online and come back online on subsequent boots.
>
> I would be more accurate to say that /etc/zipl.conf is not the _sole_ way
> to define which DASD volumes come online at boot time. The parameters there
> are used if they exist, but YaST uses a different method when setting this
> up.  This is true for SLES10 as well as SLES11.
>
> If a DASD volume is needed to mount the root file system (whether a single
> partition or an LVM LV spanning many DASD volumes), the main startup script
> in the initrd gets dasd_configure commands added for each one of them.  For
> any DASD volumes that are unrelated to the root file system, the only thing
> that gets looked at is (for SLES10) /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-dasd-*,
> and (for SLES11) /etc/udev/rules.d/51-dasd-*.
>
> The thing about the dasd_configure command is that it will create those
> files for you, whether in /etc/sysconfig/hardware, or /etc/udev/rules.d/,
> depending on what version of the distribution you're running.  So, the
> easiest way to add a volume to your system via the command line is:
> dasd_configure busid online diag/notdiag
> dasdfmt
> fdasd if ECKD and not FBA
> mkinitrd
> zipl
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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