On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 10:37, Arty Ecock wrote: > Has anyone else run into problems with R/O root disks?
Do you run into problems other than that it complains about it? > Something in > initrd wants that disk R/W. Adam suggested changing the parmline to > something like "DASD=150(ro), ..." but once that is done, you lose the > ability to update the basevol root disk (or a copy of it). Use multiple parmlines. There's the older Lucius Leland PARM LINE stuff, which I really like, which lets you do it very flexibly from CMS, and there's also actual official multiboot support in newer s390-tools. Keep a read-only and a read-write version around, and IPL the one appropriate to the occasion. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390