> With RHEL3 beta and their kernel updates, zipl is being written with an
> initrd and with the only parameters being "root=LABEL=/".
>
> What I'm curious is where it's finding which subchannel addresses and
> the order to load them with the dasd driver along with any other
> information (like ro!).  In RH 7.2 I passed that information with the
> kernel parameters.  It's not there anymore, so I gunziped and loop
> mounted the initrd file zipl is pointing at, but didn't see anything
> like a parmfile there.  The /boot/parmfile is not /boot/parmfile.1 and
> it only has the root=LABEL=/ line.
>

mkinitd parses /etc/modules.conf for DASD parameters and writes them to the
linuxrc file in the initrd.
If you'd like to add some DASDs, edit modules.conf and create a new initrd.

Regards

  Karsten Hopp

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