On 16.04.2016 09:19, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2016-04-12 23:32, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote: >> The LVM on DASD issue should be resolved by bumping the release level of >> zipl-installer to either 0.0.28 or 0.0.32 (preferable) in the next point >> release. Since this addresses an installability problem, I would hope >> that such an update would be acceptable. > > I'll need to look at the diff, but it'd be helpful to have a > confirmation that this is all that's needed. (E.g. by rebuilding > jessie's d-i with just this one udeb built for jessie.) > > Kind regards and thanks > Philipp Kern > Well, I had encouraging but mixed results: with the zipl-installer_0.0.32 udeb the boot setup was completed correctly. However, the system still didn't get up because the DASD(s) holding the root LV were not set online in the initramfs because the sysconfig-hardware in Jessie lacks the initramfs hooks (you wrote that in your blog back in October but I forgot that...). Enabling the DASD in the emergency shell and activating the volume group led to successful completion of the system boot.
That means it will be necessary to also update the sysconfig-hardware package (e.g. to 0.0.10+nmu4)). I lack the skills to tweak my Jessie mirror to upgrade the package there, so there's a still some residual risk. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards Viktor Mihajlovski IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Köderitz Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294
