2012/3/20 Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com> > > Maybe have the box ticked to format the device first? You shouldn't. > > You can partition it with "fdisk" but I have not found the magic spell > to avoid the "not on cylinder boundary" warnings. > > But the approach would be to create mini disks and scatter than over > your EDEVs, otherwise you limit yourself again to one I/O at a time > for the entire set of partitions on that single virtual FBA. > > Rob > > Hmm .... I believe that I don't have to worry about limited ios because it is going to be a system drive only. I can imagine that /var might be hit from time to time. DB will be on a seperate device.
But anyway, in ancient share presentation (2002) I have found that EDEV disk, has to be reconfigured for MSDOS partitioning... So that's what I did - I went to expert mode and created a new partition table, type MSDOS and.. it worked. Linux is being installed right now. I have a bad feeling that I am doing something unusual here and it is not going to be good for a production virtual machine. Perhaps I should reconsider using mdisks. Thanks Grzegorz P ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
