On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Ian S. Worthington wrote:
Check presence: -/bin/sh-3.00# ls -l /sbin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 4 May 17 2007 /sbin/sh -> bash
What you would actually want to check the presence of, here, is: /mnt/sysimage2/sbin/bash as that is what will be executed with chroot when you correctly type: chroot /mnt/sysimage2 /sbin/bash Brad's instructions could equally well have been amended thus: chroot /mnt/sysimage2 /sbin/zipl -V chroot /mnt/sysimage2 /sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` Which would then run the zipl and mkinitrd _on your mounted /mnt/ sysimage2 dasd_. Now that I type that out, you're going to have another very big problem and a still unbootable system, as the mkinitrd must come _before_ zipl! Here are my suggestions for alternate steps 3 & 4 from Brad's process, assuming I've correctly inferred that VolGroup00/LogVol00 is your normal root filesystem (/) and that dasda1 is /boot: 3. Create the initrd: # mkinitrd -b /mnt/sysimage2/boot -d /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # cp -p /boot/initrd* /mnt/sysimage2/boot (if somebody can tell me why this writes the initrd to /boot instead of /mnt/sysimage2/boot and thus requires the manual 'cp' step, I would be grateful) 4. Run zipl # chroot /mnt/sysimage2 /sbin/zipl ok bear ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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