Werner, I got something like that on an OS/390 IPL attempt. The same message, and the devices in question were "off line" to all other LPARs. I then did a "reset clear" on the LPAR that I was attempting to IPL, then IPL'ed it again. This time it worked! It appears that the microcode assumed that the IPL was still being attempted, even after the error message was displayed. The "RESET CLEAR" cleared up the problem.
-- John McKown Senior Technical Specialist UICI Insurance Center Applications & Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 -----Original Message----- From: Werner Kuehnel [mailto:werner.kuehnel@;mannheimer.de] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 5:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Device busy I installed Linux (SLES for S/390) onto 3 3390-3 volumes some months ago and got it started from disk. When trying to restart last week I discovered that the 3 volumes were no longer accessible by the Linux LPAR, sometime the configuration changed. So I changed the IODF/IOCDS dynamically to allow the Linux LPAR access to only the 3 volumes and the OSA and OSA-Express devices (chpids are of course shared by EMIF). After starting the LOAD at HMC the following message appear: "The load control unit and device is busy. The load control unit and device may be shared by another system." The 3 volumes are offline and has no logical paths in all running LPARs. All other LPARs are deactivated. I've searched all archives, fora and redbooks, well, there are some hits, mostly with IPL from tape, but couldn't find yet any hint how to overcome this problem. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks, Werner -- ____________________________________________________________________________ _ Werner Kuehnel IMD GmbH (Mannheimer Versicherung) Mannheim - Germany "Besuchen Sie uns im Internet: http://www.mannheimer.de";
