Hello,
This is all second level stuff. We have a major EMC change over
going to happen on Thursday. I am going IPL the whole thing then.
I want to ensure that it will start up.
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-588-4723
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext. 40441
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Behalf Of Rob van der Heij
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:21 AM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: z/VM paging problem
>
> On 7/25/06, Jeff Gribbin, EDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If you set traces before issuing the IPL command you will, "see" the
IPL
> > Command Simulator running in guest storage and will (hopefully) gain
> some
> > insight as to exactly what's happening at the moment that the error
> occur
>
> But this was on a native IPL, not with a virtual machine from what I
read.
>
> The cases where I got a paging I/O error was when the paging space had
> not been properly formatted. Either not formatted (because someone
> thought it was enuf to just do cyl 0) or after some playing with
> define mdisk in a way that the CC in the key did not match the real
> cylinder number. And I know that CP pages out some stuff very early in
> the startup.
>
> My approach would be to format the page space on that pack (but not
> after displaying the key fields in that range of cylinders to convince
> myself that I was right). Either by IPLing some rescue system if you
> have that, or by the Stand-alone ICKDSF (which also lives on your PARM
> disk I think).
>
> Rob
