Brad Hinson wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:18 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Ian S. Worthington wrote:
According to Redhat's documentation it should be possible to ipl the install
dvd in RESCUE mode. However when I try it seems to go into install mode,
asking me for my ctc addresses:
Why do you think that is a problem?
Yep, you have to answer the initial networking questions (because
there's no CONF to reference). Afterwards, instead of launching the
installer, rescue mode will start.
I was trying to find Ian's concerns, _not_ your guesses. I can guess
too, but I'm not willing to assume I can read his mind.
Note that you can do this through z/VM by just adding 'rescue' to the
PARM file.
22:12:53 Starting the zSeries initrd to configure networking. Version is 1.1
22:12:55 Which kind of network device do you intend to use
22:12:55 (e.g. ctc, iucv, qeth, lcs).
22:12:55 Enter 'qeth' for OSA-Express Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
22:12:55 (including 1000Base-T), High Speed Token Ring, and ATM
22:12:55 (running Ethernet LAN emulation) features in QDIO mode.
22:12:55 Enter 'lcs' for OSA 2 Ethernet/Token Ring, OSA-Express Fast Ethernet
in
22:12:55 non-QDIO mode, OSA-Express High Speed Token Ring in non-QDIO mode
and
22:12:55 Gigabit Ethernet in non-QDIO mode.
It has confirmed:
22:10:47 Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000
rescue
So I'm assuming that its happy with my ins file:
* minimal lpar ins file
g:/images/kernel.img 0x00000000
g:/images/initrd.img 0x00800000
D:/zcentos/rescue/rescue.prm 0x00010480
and prm:
root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000 rescue
(If its relevant I have detached my disks as I don't want them to be
accidentally written to.)
Anyone know how to boot this in RESCUE mode?
ian
...
Ian S. Worthington, MBCS.
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John
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