Hi John, just tried it, not even with a RESET CLEAR it works. Werner
"McKown, John" wrote: > > 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"; -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Werner Kuehnel IMD GmbH (Mannheimer Versicherung) Mannheim - Germany "Besuchen Sie uns im Internet: http://www.mannheimer.de";
