Mark, you are correct. I was running only zipl and NOT mkinitrd. As always, thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: zipl >>> On 8/14/2012 at 03:59 PM, "Dean, David (I/S)" <[email protected]> wrote: > We have gotten in to trouble twice now with zipl.conf. We are on > 10.3, upgrading to 10.4 then to 11.2. We have removed DASD in the > past - USER DIRECTORY - and when we boot again without running zipl we > get problems with it trying to load the old DASD def. I do not have, > I recently discovered, an adequate knowledge of zipl - working on > that - but if anyone has directions to a good explanation (I like > flow charts.) > > Now the real question. A friend asked the question, "why not run zipl > at boot?" and I said "hmmmmmm". > > Good? Bad? Ugly? I don't understand what is meant by running "zipl at boot," but I don't think that matters much. There is no reason to update /etc/zipl.conf at all when adding/removing DASD on SLES10 or SLES11 systems. Just don't do it. In fact, I would recommend removing any "dasd=" parameters from zipl.conf and then rebuilding your initrd and re-running zipl. To test that out - Duplicate one of your menu entries in zipl.conf - Rename the menu entry to something unique - Add the new menu entry to the :menu list - Remove the "dasd=" list from the "parameters-" line - Re-run mkinitrd and zipl - Reboot and select the new menu entry. If things work as expected, do it for the rest of your menu entries. If not, come back here with details. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
