We're walking through the IBM doc "Sharing and Maintaining SLES11 Linux under z/VM using DCSSs and an NSS" but using EDEV FBA devices instead of native CKD devices. We've move to the point where we are making our first cloned copy and are running into issues.
The original script identifies the CKD disk mount points, then uses 'dasdfmt' to format the destination CKD devices and 'dd' to do a block copy from the source to the destination devices. We've altered the script to identify the FBA devices, format them with 'mkfs' and then use the 'dd' to perform the block copy. When we try to boot the cloned copy, we don't even get the boot menu, it just fails with HCPGIR453W CP entered; program interrupt loop. If we copy the devices from within CMS using DDR, the destination server boots successfully following the copy. Does anyone successfully clone servers using scripts run from within a running linux clone server for EDEV FBA devices? I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who has used EDEV FBA devices to generate sles11 servers which share read-only portions of the boot & root partitions without DCSS & NSS related to what they segment off for each server to use read-write locally. We think that's more likely the scenario we would want to go with, but we are walking through the above named document to get familiar with that method as a possibility. Craig Collins State of WI, DOA, DET ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
