On 4 December 2015 at 17:39, Connor Krukosky <conn...@connorsdomain.com> wrote:
> Ok so I'm sure many have been wondering what happened with the z890. > Indeed. > I have after many road blocks I have gotten the FCP SCSI storage working > and actually did complete an install of CentOS 4.7 on it last night! > Woo-hoo! > But the new problem is IPLing said install. I would be-able to directly > IPL from SCSI if I had Feature Code FC 9904, which I do not. > This was supposedly a free Feature Code back in the day but was only > available till Dec. 31, 2007. > So if anyone has FC 9904 and is able to send me a copy (If that's how that > works? I assume this is loaded into the system via floppy.) it would make > my life a million times easier :) > Your box has a floppy drive? Really? > Otherwise I will have to find a way to mount the drives in an installer > and boot with the installer. > Which I have yet to find a way to do this, any documented way anyway, I > will have to play with it. > This should be last step to have Linux running! > So hopefully someone can get me a copy of FC 9904 or I can find some other > way to IPL. > Just so I'm clear... Your z890 plugs in to your SCSI disk box, but it won't IPL from it? That is, these are separate features? If I have this right, then it should be possible to write a small program that could, at worst, be keyed in to storage. This program would then perform the I/O instructions to emulate the SCSI IPL. Sort of like the way VM emulates IPL in a virtual machine. Well maybe this is just what FC 9904 does... I must say that CCW programming is a lot simpler than what I see of TCWs and such. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
