On Friday, 02/13/2009 at 12:48 EST, Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> wrote:
> This problem with using Layer 2 during installation seems to be coming up more > often now, so I asked one of my contacts in Germany about it. He said the > OSAHWaddr parameter is what you need to put into the parmfile to provide that > value. Eh? The OSA (real or virtual) already has a MAC address. You aren't required to ifconfig a MAC address to bring up an OSA with Layer 2, so why does the install want one? (The drivers extract the burned-in or otherwise currently set MAC address.) (And why is the parameter specific to OSA? *OSA*HWaddr? Other platforms have MACs, too.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
