>>> On 9/19/2012 at 01:01 AM, Tobias Doerkes <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hi all,
> yesterday i did the first time a native LPAR install via DVD on the HMC. I 

My condolences.

> installed a SLES11 SP2. This is a special customer environment, so z/VM is no 
> option.
> I wonder why the ipl of the starter image is soooo slow. But i think it has 
> got something to do with the dasd disovery after loading the dasd module. 
> Right? This LPAR has the complete z/OS environment defined.
> So my question is wether i can pass some dasd parameter to the starter 
> system to just discover the 2x 3390 we need for this install. 

Yes, this situation is exactly why cio_ignore was invented.  You'll need to 
tell the kernel to ignore everything except the 2 DASD volumes, the 3 network 
device numbers, the console, and any other devices you know you're going to 
need.  See the IBM page at 
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/documentation_suse.html and 
look "Device Drivers, Features, and Commands on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 
SP2 - SC34-2595-02 ".


Mark Post

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