I think you may be confusing normal SCSI (which in itself doesn't exist on zSeries to my knowledge) with with Fibre Channel Protocol. FCP is very much supported on SLES 10. In fact, support for FCP was available as far back as SLES 8 - or possibly even earlier. Documentation for 8 is the oldest I can find confirming this.
Installing to FCP storage went fine - it's booting that installed OS that I'm struggling with. It works work fine if I had Feature Code 9904, which allows the system to IPL from FCP storage; however I do not have this feature code, and it's no longer available from IBM. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Wolfgang Fritz <0000016acdc52809-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 02:26 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install There is no scsi and DVD treiber on sles10 for z/system z800 on z13 and sles12.1 or sles12.2 is scsi and DVD boot available Otherwise you have to boot from ftp server and install it on dasd Have fun Bin unterwegs hab nur iPhone zur Verfügung.😎 > Am 24.05.2017 um 21:43 schrieb Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com>: > > Congrats on the z800! Sounds like a lot of fun. Don't worry about the bad > words, I've heard a lot worse I'm sure. > > A bit of a crazy idea, but I've had crazier ones that were implemented: What > if you wrote your own small program, IPLable from DVD or USB (or whatever is > available on the z800), and that program would know (or get) the subchannel > id of your SCSI boot disk, run CCW's to load the SUSE boot records into low > memory, load the PSW, and off you go as if you booted from SCSI. > > Wolfgang Fritz wrote: >> Hi With sles10 there is only dasd for ipl supported >> Bin unterwegs hab nur iPhone zur Verfügung.😎 >>> Am 24.05.2017 um 17:03 schrieb Jim Stefanik <j...@jimstefanik.com>: >>> >>> Hi everyone. I'm newish here...I think I may have posted once before? >>> Hoping someone here can help me. >>> >>> I recently bought myself a z800. I've got it running and have successfully >>> installed SLES 10 to an FCP-attached RAID array. However, I'm stuck at the >>> same point that Connor Krukosky got stuck at with his machine - I don't >>> have Feature Code 9904 (SCSI IPL); so I can't IPL the installed OS. >>> >>> There's an option in the various boot menus of SLES to boot an existing >>> install, however I can't seem to figure out if its possible to point it to >>> an FCP WWPN & LUN, or if it can only deal with DASD or something from that >>> menu. >>> >>> Does anyone have experience with using that option? If not, does anyone >>> know how to correctly use kexec and/or chroot to jump from a recovery mode >>> session to my real storage? It's been a couple of years since I've messed >>> with kexec and I've only used it to switch kernels, not entire filesystems. >>> Is that even possible? >>> >>> I am able to mount my FCP LUN wihtout any issues once in recovery mode >>> (in-fact, I wrote a quick shell script and rigged the root login to do it >>> for me). I've already NFS'd off my /boot folder and zipl.conf to my file >>> server (I've been IPL'ing via FTP); so I can copy them around from any >>> other machine if needed. >>> >>> I also have a StorageTek 9840A ESCON tape drive defined in my IOCDS, which >>> I should be able to read/write from within recovery mode. If someone knows >>> what files and in what order to write them to tape, I believe I can IPL >>> from that and use directives in the parmfile file to point to the FCP WWPN >>> & LUN as the root file system? Clarification on that concept in-general >>> would be good for anyone who's done it. >>> >>> Thanks in advance! >>> >>> p.s. - if anyone is interested in seeing my machine, I'm making a YouTube >>> video series on it. The playlist is here: >>> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIWXRqvZs2Xf-VHIP7P80CDhGNcvwbS5T >>> .... please do note that I do use profanity. In videos going forward I >>> will be editing that out; so sorry about that on the older ones! >>> >>> Jim Stefanik >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
