>>> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
