Seems I got over-zealous in removing some of the early e-mails from this thread,
so this may have been eliminated as a possible cause.
I thought I saw in one of the mailings that the devices in question are mod 9's.
There is a fix available from Suse for a hang condition in mod 9's formatted in
CDL, so my first question would be, "Have you applied this fix?" because the mod
9's aren't going to work without it.
Just putting in my 2-cents worth.
Steve Arden
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> I think I have a telling message now, on why the IPL halted.
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> After I got the partition check messages:
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> Partition Check:
> dasda:VOL1/ L40D1C : dasda dasda1
> dasdb:VOl1/ L40D18: dasdb
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> After a while, this shows up.
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> <7> dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdb(94:4),0d18@0x2f6:
> Perform logging requested
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> Then it hangs.
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> I can certainly go back through a dasdfmt/fdasd process and re-install to
> see if I missed anything but I'd rather not....
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> James,
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> Not sure if the install did it or not. Theoretically, you should be able
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> just issue the zipl command (with no parameters) to make sure.
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> I found what appears to be my new root volume at /mnt/. Apparantly YaST has
> already built a zipl.conf file for me? Does this mean that YaST also
> handled the IPL record? The zipl.conf file contains the correct dasd
> devices. I see it still keeps the annoying behaviour of rearranging things
> so that dasda1 is your swap volume.
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> I just want to make sure that the ipl record has been written. If so, I
> will attempt to IPL the new system.
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> James,
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> The /boot directory can be on any physical disk on your system. That then
> becomes the device number you IPL from. A lot of people have it in their
> root file system, which by default will wind up on /dev/dasdb1 on a SuSE
> system. The "df" command will show you all your currently mounted file
> systems. "/" should be at the top.
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> Mark Post
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> I have my system built. all that remains is for me to run zipl and I should
> be able to build it.
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> I don't know where /boot is supposed to be . I cannot seem to locate my
> root volume even though cat /proc/dasd/devices indicates the volume is
> available.
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> don't I need to be able to run zipl from the root volume of the new file
> system I just installed? What should I really put in /etc/zipl.conf?
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> I'm basically staring a tthe 2-3 pages of the SuSE manual and going 'this
> assumes I know more than I do'
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> I wouldn't normalyl give up so soon and ask this fairly benign question but
> we're doing a power-on reset on sunday. So I have tomorrow to get this
> thing to IPL-able or start over and re-install monday.
