Hi
I am taking my first crack at building a 2nd level z/VM under my 1st level z/VM. I tried IPLing the 2nd level and I am receiving the following: 13:20:27 Start ((Warm|Force|COLD|CLEAN) (DRain) (DIsable) (NODIRect) 13:20:27 (NOAUTOlog)) or (SHUTDOWN) H HCPSED6013A A CP read is pending. At this point I cannot enter anything in the console. A little background on how I built this. The 2nd level is a copy of my 1st level with any needed changes to the SYSTEM CONFIG and Directory files. The RES and Spool are copies from my first level. Below is a copy of my SECLVL user directory entry: USER SECLVL SECLVL 500M 500M BCDEFG MACHINE ESA 2 OPTION TODENABLE IPL CMS CONSOLE 0009 3215 T OPERATOR SPOOL 000C READER A SPOOL 000D PUNCH A SPOOL 000E PRINTER A LINK MAINT 0190 0190 RR LINK MAINT 019D 019D RR LINK MAINT 019E 019E RR MDISK 191 3390 1 200 53DW01 MR MDISK 1000 3390 0 END 53DRES MR MDISK 12F1 3390 0 END 53DPAG MR MDISK 12F2 3390 0 END 53DSPL MR Now the examples in the book 'z/VM Running Guest Operating Systems' are using one disk broken down into multiple mdisks for RES, PAGE, and SPOOL. I just decided to use my copy of the first level and make these full pack mdisks as you see in the user directory. Will this approach work? Or am I missing something. Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 terry.ma...@cms.hhs.gov