Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-07 Thread Vic Cross
G'day Jim, On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Jim Sibley wrote: > Is it that the boot record has to be > updated by zipl to get to the new initrd module? Yes. As I understand it, it goes like this... When you ran mkinitrd, what's happened on the disk is that a new file to contain your initrd has been allocat

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
I just did a quick experiment with RHEL3, mkinitrd, and zipl. 1) I updated /etc/modules.conf, then did the mkinitrd using the same name for /boot/initrd When I rebooted, the new dasd were NOT there. 2) I then did a zipl and rebooted. The new dasd was picked up. Bottom line - both the mkinitrd

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Post, Mark K
] Subject: Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0 >The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change > "permanent" in the /boot/initrd... module. Then running zipl will make it permanent in the boot sector of the IPL disk. -Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
>The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change > "permanent" in the /boot/initrd... module. >Then running zipl will make it permanent in the boot >sector of the IPL >disk. If you use the same initrd name, then the zipl may not be necessary. I think the zipl is only needed if the /etc/zipl.conf

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Post, Mark K
Isaac Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0 >The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change > "permanent" in the /boot/initrd... module. Then running zipl will make it permanent in the boot sector of the IPL disk. -M

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Michael MacIsaac
>The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change > "permanent" in the /boot/initrd... module. Then running zipl will make it permanent in the boot sector of the IPL disk. -Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
"This problem is getting to be a FAQ..." I had that feeling when I encountered the change in RHEL3 (RH 7.1/7.2 uses the same technique SuSE). Both SuSE 8 and RHEL3 now use mkinitrd, but the syntax is different. I do need to update the page to allow for using labels rather than /dev/dasd...; I'm f

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
"But how do I make the change permanent in RH EL 3.0 AS?" The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change "permanent" in the /boot/initrd... module. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Post, Mark K
This problem is getting to be a FAQ... http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/mkinitrd-notes.html Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scully, William P Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: zipl.conf for RH

zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Scully, William P
The default zipl.conf for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS is: [defaultboot] default=linux target=/boot/ [linux] image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.