I had a linux recovery session at share a couple years ago: http://linuxvm.org/Present/SHARE110/S9240jb.pdf
the last section covers ripping open the Linux initrd and adding more tools to it to do bare metal recovery from the ramdisk - the approach is still valid, but some of the tools used have probably changed. -- Jay Brenneman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/