I also think not swapping addresses around might help avoid errors and at least confusion... what is the point of cloning 200 > 201 and 201 > 200 ? Have you tried readdressing your disks to match the guest you cloned from?
Scott Rohling On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Stefan Haberland <s...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > unfortunately I am not that deep into flashcopy, so please excuse if I > assume something wrong. > > On 09.05.2017 01:57, Dave Myers wrote: > >> A bootable SLES12 SP1 system was cloned using flashcopy. >> All minidisks on the clone are the same virtual address. >> > > Do the minidisks have exactly the same size? Or is it possible that you > cloned only parts of the disk? > > >> At boot on the clone we get: >> >> IPL 201 >> Booting default (grub2) >> dasd-eckd 42a207: 0.0.0200: The specified record was not found. >> >> 1. What's the most likely cause for this error? >> > > That the disk is not fully formatted or (more unlikely) it is defective. > > >> 2. What script/files do we need to tweak to fix it ? >> > > dasdfmt will format the whole disk but this would destroy all cloned > data and might not be what you want. > > I suggest that the disks should have exactly the same size and > everything should be cloned. If this is not possible for some reason you > could format the target disk using dasdfmt (or if the source disk was > formatted with another tool use this one) before cloning. Please note > that you have to use the same disk format and blocksize as for the > source disk. > > Regards, > Stefan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
