I do not - I did discover an IBM presentation that included notes of loading from SCSI from the HMC, but as you suggest, no such panels exist on my old z-390. I wasn't certain if that missing panel also meant that zVM would also fail to IPL from SCSI.
Thanks both Mark and Ray. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Raymond Higgs Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:55 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Boot from FCP on vintage hardware Tim, SCSI IPL was an separate, orderable feature until z10. If you open up the load panel on your z890 HMC/SE, do you see SCSI stuff? Regards, Ray Higgs System z FCP Development Bld. 706, B24 2455 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 435-8666, T/L 295-8666 rayhi...@us.ibm.com Moeur Tim C <tim.mo...@srpnet.com> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu> 03/18/2010 07:19 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu> To LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu cc Subject Boot from FCP on vintage hardware Hey list - I've been hunting through IBM documents for this answer but so far no gold. Perhaps one of you will save me a lot of time. I'm building zLinux images to use zfcp file systems as the /boot directory. This works well here at home on our Z10. Our DR machine, however, is an older z-890, code level unknown. I'm able to mount the zfcp devices on already running booted-from-3390-dasd images, but when I attempt to ipl (this is as a VM guest) the boot-from-zfcp image it instantly drops into a CP Program interrupt wait error. There appears to be no attempt (or messages) to resolve the wwpn and lun path information that I've build into the image with mkinitrd. I'm thinking that the z890 doesn't support a boot from zfcp. Can anyone confirm this? Tim tim.mo...@srpnet.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
