See this thread.. starting about here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-390@vm.marist.edu/msg51864.html
I'd surmise from the conversation that if you're able to reboot, you likely don't need to run mkinitrd.. As Rick Troth indicates - the initial ramdisk just needs enough smarts to be able to mount root. Scott Rohling On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Donald Russell <russell....@gmail.com>wrote: > I have RHEL 5.6 running on zVM 6.1. The RHEL userid has several FCP devices > dedicated in the cp directory. > > When I add LUNs to the system to create a new file system, or expand an > existing one, I add the fcp/wwpn/lun triplet to /etc/zfcp.conf, run zfcp.sh > which then brings them all online. I then "echo reconfigure | multipathd > -r". (I think it's -r, I'm going by memory here) > > All seems to be good, and everything survives a reboot... but recently I've > come across something about using mkinitrd and using zipl... > > Is that necessary? Where can I read more about mkinitrd and when it is > needed and so on? > > Thanks very much > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
