Alen. I don;t think z/Os has to do with this. This is a stand alone IPL. DSS S/A image can be generated as a card-reader image (F/80/80) which is also supported by tape (according to the manual). Anyway, the HMC does allow to load S/A utilities from CD, but it requires an INS file that points to the code to load.
It look like you nbeed to be in a Single Operation Mode in order to use this function. ITschak On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:21:49 +0300, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >During z/Linux installation it is possible to use the HMC's DVD drive as a > >tape drive. I wonder is DSS S/A can be started (Loaded) from same device > and > >not from a IOCP defined device. > > Unless z/OS specifically provides support to do that, no. It takes coding > changes to support boot from DVD (it's not an IPL operation). > > Creating a DVD that the HMC will understand and load isn't hard (look at > the > root directory of the Linux DVD), but getting it to work after it's been > loaded is up to the code itself. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development, IBM > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
