Yes, it come up on boot. BUT is a (from msdos' times) ram drive. Shut down the computer, lose the contents. Reboot your linux, lose the swap signature on drive... Ask google for a exec called SWAPGEN. I use it, works fine, really fine.
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Dean, David (I/S) <[email protected]>wrote: > Ok, we have it working. Defined it in User Directory, formatted it for > swap, added it to fstab, and added it to boot.local -> mkswap and swapon. > > Why did I have to add it boot.local? why does it not act like a normal > DASD drive and come on at boot? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Antonio Jesús Lozano Bonilla > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: vdisk > > i think so.. if your list of devices is short or not get the new dasd > (vdisk).. > > And i suppouse u get it on DIAGNOSE mode.. so it is little more efficient > than FBA.... > > 2011/4/18 Mark Pace <[email protected]> > > > Wouldn't he need to run > > mkinitrd > > in order to get the correct drivers in the initial ramdisk? > > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Dean, David (I/S) <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Just added vdisk to 11 zlinux boxes on zvm 6 for swap. Did this > > dynamically > > > and it worked perfectly BUT I am losing it on reboot... > > > > > > Does it need to be defined in zipl.conf? it is in fstab. > > > > > > David M. Dean > > > Information Systems > > > BlueCross BlueShield Tennnessee > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee > > > E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mark D Pace > > Senior Systems Engineer > > Mainline Information Systems > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > > > -- > Antonio J. Lozano Bonilla > > http://es.linkedin.com/in/ajlozano > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ----------------------------------------------------- > Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee > E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
