> David > I would think you would have to modify the inittab so that a signal sent > would emulate the key sequence RH is asking for, I recall doing that some > time back for something else I was working on.
You're probably thinking about the cntrl-alt-del hack that SIGNAL SHUTDOWN uses. That works because the kernel/init map the signal. They're trying to get an alternate console, and a) the console driver for the HMC/3215/3270 doesn't support those, and b) a 3270 can't generate that sequence -- there's no terminal event for it in the base 3270 architecture. You'd have to modify the terminal emulator or the console driver to accept some magic sequence to emulate it (like the VM telnet command does with the logical not (^) char plus a char. You could probably modify the console driver to parse PA2 as "switch console".. .hmm. Would depend on the model of 3270, I guess; the data entry assist feature in the 3x74s had a session switch keystroke (IIRC if you were in SNA mode), but that's pretty arcane and not implemented in most 3270 emulators. It also might be worth looking into whether the IUCV console initialization could move earlier. That would give (with the help of a terminal server appliance guest) a true ASCII console session much earlier on, and I think the "usual" process for multiple consoles could be convinced to work much earlier (X3.64/VTxxx terminals do have PF key sequences that could be defined as the switch code for virtual terminals). Re: disks. This seems to be a perennial problem in the installers; it keeps popping back up release after release. It'd be nice if the installer just overwrote the designated disks as you describe (you told it explicitly what to nuke, so your gun your foot), and then proceeded to do the regular fdasd/dasdfmt combination (bonus if you provide an option to flash a preformatted disk onto the new one if your hw can do it and just fix the UUID). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] 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/
