intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Bonno, Tuco
please allow me to introduce myself.
I am new to this listserver community.
I am an mvs systems programmer w/ about 30 years experience with  ibm mainframe 
o/s-s (s360 thru z/os), plus about 12 years experience w/ ibm’s 
UnixSystemsServices/OpenEdition, and its related hierarchical file system (HFS).
I have been given a mission to install a Linux o/s on an IFL lpar on one of our 
Z9 mainframe platforms, and hence have found my way here, to this community.
the PURPOSE of the Linux IFL lpar will be to host DB2Connect.
The install is going to be standalone directly into the IFL lpar (the 
governmental agency I work for does not wish to spend any money for a Z/VM 
license – or for anything else connected w/ this op.).  So  I’m also going to 
need a FREE distribution of Linux.  So far I have discovered about 3 of these 
‘free’ Linuxes: Centos, Debian, and the one available from the marist.edu .
question:  can anyone offer me some advice on which one I should use (please 
keep in mind the purpose is to host DB2Connect) ?
question: can anyone recommend any good cookbook manuals to use?  on my own, 
I’ve discovered quite a few books out there on the internet, but I would like 
to save some time and not have to download each one to check it out ….
question: anyone have any gp (general purpose, across the board)  words of 
wisdom he/she would care to share?

thank you for your indulgence.

/s/  tuco bonno
graduate, College of Conflict Management;
University of Southeast Asia;
I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! 



osa layer 2 setup in redhat ???

2010-01-13 Thread Caleb C Ong
Hi,

I already installed rhel 5.4 , native lpar,  osa layer 3.  This is up and
running.
I tried reinstalling rhel 5.4 , native lpar with osa layer 2. During the
install it will prompt for a MAC address.
Can someone guide me thru this. what is the mac address the rhel
installater is looking for ?
I tried putting in the mac address of the OSA and it doesn't accept it.  I
tried putting blank but there is
an error later during the  initializing  of the osa.   I tried putting my
own administered mac address 02:00:00:00:00:01, this
one seems to work but i am confused what this mac address is for.

I look at the example of channel bonding setup and all them seems to have
the mac addr set to the
mac address of the device ?

# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:06:29:55:2A:01
# ifconfig eth1 hw ether 00:05:27:54:21:04

should i go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and edit ifcfg-eth0 and
change the mac address back
to the osa address ?

appreciate if you can shed some light on this.

Caleb C. Ong

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Re: intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)
This is a great place to start as you start working with Linux. Also keep 
www.google.com/linux as quick starting point to finding answers.

Do you have an open systems group in your shop? Buy a large box of donuts and 
pay them a visit. Many quick answers can be found just down the hall in many 
shops. Also set up one or two x86 boxes at home to play with, and install Linux 
on them, just to keep as a sandbox to test your ideas.

One Question, why go with free source code? Will you be putting any production 
applications on zLinux? Is there a detail play within your organization to use 
zLinux, or is this just a playground? 

If this will be a high value application for users that need 7 x 24 x 365 
access, then you may want to invest in some system support, both SUSE and RED 
HAT are great with their support for the z390x platform. And push for zVM, that 
is where the magic begins, virtualization! New server fully loaded in less than 
10 minutes. Seeing the .gov in your email, someone has to be accountable to 
the performance with application running on zLinux.

James Chaplin
Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM  zLinux
Base Technologies, Inc
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bonno, 
Tuco
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:02 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: intro,  request for advice ...

please allow me to introduce myself.
I am new to this listserver community.
I am an mvs systems programmer w/ about 30 years experience with  ibm mainframe 
o/s-s (s360 thru z/os), plus about 12 years experience w/ ibm’s 
UnixSystemsServices/OpenEdition, and its related hierarchical file system (HFS).
I have been given a mission to install a Linux o/s on an IFL lpar on one of our 
Z9 mainframe platforms, and hence have found my way here, to this community.
the PURPOSE of the Linux IFL lpar will be to host DB2Connect.
The install is going to be standalone directly into the IFL lpar (the 
governmental agency I work for does not wish to spend any money for a Z/VM 
license – or for anything else connected w/ this op.).  So  I’m also going to 
need a FREE distribution of Linux.  So far I have discovered about 3 of these 
‘free’ Linuxes: Centos, Debian, and the one available from the marist.edu .
question:  can anyone offer me some advice on which one I should use (please 
keep in mind the purpose is to host DB2Connect) ?
question: can anyone recommend any good cookbook manuals to use?  on my own, 
I’ve discovered quite a few books out there on the internet, but I would like 
to save some time and not have to download each one to check it out ….
question: anyone have any gp (general purpose, across the board)  words of 
wisdom he/she would care to share?

thank you for your indulgence.

/s/  tuco bonno
graduate, College of Conflict Management;
University of Southeast Asia;
I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! 



Re: intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Melancon, Ruddy
I have been in your situatuion before.  I would try the Centos for your project 
since it is very closely related to Red Hat.  This way if management were to 
decide to spring for a supported license you could use Red Hat and be 
comfortable with the result.  Otherwise the Debian will probably meet you 
needs.  By the way I have not installed DB2Connect under Linux as yet so this 
is purely from a Linux perspective.

Ruddy Melancon
Alabama Dept of Transportation

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bonno, 
Tuco
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:02 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: intro,  request for advice ...

please allow me to introduce myself.
I am new to this listserver community.
I am an mvs systems programmer w/ about 30 years experience with  ibm mainframe 
o/s-s (s360 thru z/os), plus about 12 years experience w/ ibm’s 
UnixSystemsServices/OpenEdition, and its related hierarchical file system (HFS).
I have been given a mission to install a Linux o/s on an IFL lpar on one of our 
Z9 mainframe platforms, and hence have found my way here, to this community.
the PURPOSE of the Linux IFL lpar will be to host DB2Connect.
The install is going to be standalone directly into the IFL lpar (the 
governmental agency I work for does not wish to spend any money for a Z/VM 
license – or for anything else connected w/ this op.).  So  I’m also going to 
need a FREE distribution of Linux.  So far I have discovered about 3 of these 
‘free’ Linuxes: Centos, Debian, and the one available from the marist.edu .
question:  can anyone offer me some advice on which one I should use (please 
keep in mind the purpose is to host DB2Connect) ?
question: can anyone recommend any good cookbook manuals to use?  on my own, 
I’ve discovered quite a few books out there on the internet, but I would like 
to save some time and not have to download each one to check it out ….
question: anyone have any gp (general purpose, across the board)  words of 
wisdom he/she would care to share?

thank you for your indulgence.

/s/  tuco bonno
graduate, College of Conflict Management;
University of Southeast Asia;
I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! 



Re: intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Rich Smrcina
Certainly from a support standpoint, DB2 Connect and most vendor 
software is not certified on the 'free' Linux distributions.  You will 
need a supported distribution from Novell or RedHat.   It is possible 
that the vendor will not even license the software without a supported 
distribution.  If you do get a license, the software may not install due 
to install-time checks.  If you manage to get past all that and have 
problems you will have no one to call.



-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bonno, 
Tuco
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:02 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: intro,  request for advice ...

please allow me to introduce myself.
I am new to this listserver community.
I am an mvs systems programmer w/ about 30 years experience with  ibm mainframe 
o/s-s (s360 thru z/os), plus about 12 years experience w/ ibm’s 
UnixSystemsServices/OpenEdition, and its related hierarchical file system (HFS).
I have been given a mission to install a Linux o/s on an IFL lpar on one of our 
Z9 mainframe platforms, and hence have found my way here, to this community.
the PURPOSE of the Linux IFL lpar will be to host DB2Connect.
The install is going to be standalone directly into the IFL lpar (the 
governmental agency I work for does not wish to spend any money for a Z/VM 
license – or for anything else connected w/ this op.).  So  I’m also going to 
need a FREE distribution of Linux.  So far I have discovered about 3 of these 
‘free’ Linuxes: Centos, Debian, and the one available from the marist.edu .
question:  can anyone offer me some advice on which one I should use (please 
keep in mind the purpose is to host DB2Connect) ?
question: can anyone recommend any good cookbook manuals to use?  on my own, 
I’ve discovered quite a few books out there on the internet, but I would like 
to save some time and not have to download each one to check it out ….
question: anyone have any gp (general purpose, across the board)  words of 
wisdom he/she would care to share?

thank you for your indulgence.

/s/  tuco bonno
graduate, College of Conflict Management;
University of Southeast Asia;
I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !!

   



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Re: gcc 4.x.x on SLES 9

2010-01-13 Thread rui
Hi Richard,

I am happy with the CSCRATCH method, which looks safe to me. Thanks again
for such detailed explanation, its of great help.
However, after installing gmp 4.1 from rpm  and then building mpfr, then
installing it in /usr/opt/mpfr and pointing to right directories, my build
of gcc fails on make.

Errors are listed below, can you please help:
There are more than 1500 error lines but they seem to be repetitive.
uname -a
Linux suse9 2.6.5-7.97-s390x #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 s390x s390x
s390x GNU/Linux


-
est ! -z gcc-4.3.2
test -d gcc-4.3.2
echo make: checking that config matches target ...
make: checking that config matches target ...
test `cat _cfg` = `./setup --system`
sh -c ' cd gcc-4.3.2 ; exec make '
make[1]: Entering directory `/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2'
[ -f stage_final ] || echo stage3  stage_final
make[2]: Entering directory `/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2'
make[3]: Entering directory `/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2'
make[4]: Entering directory `/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2'
rm -f stage_current
make[4]: Leaving directory `/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2'
make[3]: Entering directory `/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty'
make[5]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty/testsuite'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty/testsuite'
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/intl'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/intl'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/build-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty'
make[5]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/build-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty/testsuite'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/build-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty/testsuite'
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/build-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libiberty'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/build-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/fixincludes'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/build-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/fixincludes'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libcpp'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libcpp'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libdecnumber'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/libdecnumber'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/pike/m4mbuild/gcc4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2/host-s390x-ibm-linux-gnu/gcc'
gcc -c -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -fno-common -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -I.
-Ibuild -I../.././gcc -I../.././gcc/build -I../.././gcc/../include
-I../.././gcc/../libcpp/include -I/usr/opt/gmp/include
-I/usr/opt/mpfr/include -I../.././gcc/../libdecnumber
-I../.././gcc/../libdecnumber/dpd -I../libdecnumber-o build/gencondmd.o
build/gencondmd.c
In file included from build/gencondmd.c:41:
../.././gcc/config/s390/constraints.md: In function
`satisfies_constraint_L':
../.././gcc/config/s390/constraints.md:136: error: `TARGET_ZARCH' undeclared
(first use in this function)
../.././gcc/config/s390/constraints.md:136: error: (Each undeclared
identifier is reported only once
../.././gcc/config/s390/constraints.md:136: error: for each function it
appears in.)
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md: At top level:
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:542: error: `TARGET_ZARCH' undeclared here
(not in a function)
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:542: error: `TARGET_ZARCH' undeclared here
(not in a function)
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:543: error: initializer element is not
constant
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:543: error: (near initialization for
`insn_conditions[0].value')
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:543: warning: missing initializer
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:543: warning: (near initialization for
`insn_conditions[0].value')
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:543: error: initializer element is not
constant
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:543: error: (near initialization for
`insn_conditions[0]')
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:1351: error: `TARGET_64BIT' undeclared here
(not in a function)
../.././gcc/config/s390/s390.md:1351: error: `TARGET_64BIT' undeclared here
(not 

Re: intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Scott Rohling
I think the answer depends on whether this is simply a 'proof of concept' or
if the result is supposed to be a supportable solution.

I'm guessing that for now, it's proof of concept..  so as Ruddy suggested,
CentOS might be a good choice since it's RH based.   I'm sure RH and Novell
provide 'trial' periods too.

Ultimately, as others have said - you'll need to choose one of the supported
Linux distros for DB2Connect if your goal is a vendor-supportable
solution.   And even if proof of concept -- it's a 'good thing' to try and
start with supported solutions and not have to start over when you've proved
your concept and now want to run with it.

Scott

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Bonno, Tuco t...@cio.sc.gov wrote:

 please allow me to introduce myself.
 I am new to this listserver community.
 I am an mvs systems programmer w/ about 30 years experience with  ibm
 mainframe o/s-s (s360 thru z/os), plus about 12 years experience w/ ibm’s
 UnixSystemsServices/OpenEdition, and its related hierarchical file system
 (HFS).
 I have been given a mission to install a Linux o/s on an IFL lpar on one of
 our Z9 mainframe platforms, and hence have found my way here, to this
 community.
 the PURPOSE of the Linux IFL lpar will be to host DB2Connect.
 The install is going to be standalone directly into the IFL lpar (the
 governmental agency I work for does not wish to spend any money for a Z/VM
 license – or for anything else connected w/ this op.).  So  I’m also going
 to need a FREE distribution of Linux.  So far I have discovered about 3 of
 these ‘free’ Linuxes: Centos, Debian, and the one available from the
 marist.edu .
 question:  can anyone offer me some advice on which one I should use
 (please keep in mind the purpose is to host DB2Connect) ?
 question: can anyone recommend any good cookbook manuals to use?  on my
 own, I’ve discovered quite a few books out there on the internet, but I
 would like to save some time and not have to download each one to check it
 out ….
 question: anyone have any gp (general purpose, across the board)  words of
 wisdom he/she would care to share?

 thank you for your indulgence.

 /s/  tuco bonno
 graduate, College of Conflict Management;
 University of Southeast Asia;
 I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! 



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Re: intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread OAKES Roger * SDC
Tuco, I'm a newbie on this list, I've done z/OS programming for fewer years 
than you have but for longer than z/Linux.  You might have seen me on the TCPIP 
list.  

A couple of thoughts - 

Production means that the agency expects to have the same level of 
infrastructure and operational support as z/OS.  Since it's On the Mainframe 
they're ignoring a huge piece of infrastructure because we made it work for 
z/OS decades ago.  

We had z/Linux project go from skunkworks to production without resolving all 
the infrastructure and operational issues.  It's not pretty.  POR's, backup and 
recovery, accounting, management, the list of things that you don't take into 
account are impressive.  We've spent several man months already and we're only 
part way through making our installation fully production ready and billable.  

I recommend that you push back.  The only way I would run z/Linux on the LPAR 
without z/VM is very early proof of concept, and even then I'm not sure.  
  
HTH.  

Roger Oakes 

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bonno, 
Tuco
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:02 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: intro,  request for advice ...

please allow me to introduce myself.
I am new to this listserver community.
I am an mvs systems programmer w/ about 30 years experience with  ibm mainframe 
o/s-s (s360 thru z/os), plus about 12 years experience w/ ibm’s 
UnixSystemsServices/OpenEdition, and its related hierarchical file system (HFS).
I have been given a mission to install a Linux o/s on an IFL lpar on one of our 
Z9 mainframe platforms, and hence have found my way here, to this community.
the PURPOSE of the Linux IFL lpar will be to host DB2Connect.
The install is going to be standalone directly into the IFL lpar (the 
governmental agency I work for does not wish to spend any money for a Z/VM 
license – or for anything else connected w/ this op.).  So  I’m also going to 
need a FREE distribution of Linux.  So far I have discovered about 3 of these 
‘free’ Linuxes: Centos, Debian, and the one available from the marist.edu .
question:  can anyone offer me some advice on which one I should use (please 
keep in mind the purpose is to host DB2Connect) ?
question: can anyone recommend any good cookbook manuals to use?  on my own, 
I’ve discovered quite a few books out there on the internet, but I would like 
to save some time and not have to download each one to check it out ….
question: anyone have any gp (general purpose, across the board)  words of 
wisdom he/she would care to share?

thank you for your indulgence.

/s/  tuco bonno
graduate, College of Conflict Management; University of Southeast Asia; I 
partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! 



Re: SLES11 boot problem

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Martin
Thanks Ray,

We actually circumvented the problem earlier this afternoon by disabling
multipathing.

Brought the system up in rescue mode, mounted /dev/sda3 (root) at /mnt,
mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot, rebound proc, sys and dev then chroot /mnt.

Edited /etc/sysconfig/kernel changing

INITRD_MODULES=jbd ext3 zfcp dm-multipath
to
INITRD_MODULES=jbd ext3 zfcp

then ran mkinitrd and zipl -V and rebooted successfully.

However, we still don't understand why multipathing was broken.  I have two
other SuSE 11 guests running on this same zVM LPAR with multipathing enabled
that weren't having any issues.  None the less, just glad it's back.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Raymond Higgs rayhi...@us.ibm.com wrote:

 Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/12/2010 10:09:09
 AM:

  Joe Martin widet.jmar...@gmail.com
  Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
 
  01/12/2010 10:09 AM
 
  Please respond to
  Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
 
  To
 
  LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
 
  cc
 
  Subject
 
  Re: SLES11 boot problem
 
  *Did that change anything?* - We don't think so.
  *when you get dumped into the shell, can you see any of your devices in
  /dev, or /proc/partitions? * Yes.
  *Is the zfcp driver loaded (cat /proc/modules)?* Yes.
 
 
  We see the disk, with the right path and lun number for each partition.
  Here?s the output from the shell:
 
  $ cd
  by-path
 
  $ ls
  -l
 
  total
  0
 
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jan 12 14:45
  ccw-0.0.d000-zfcp-0x5006048ad52cea89:0x07
 
  01 -
  ../../sda
 
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 12 14:45
  ccw-0.0.d000-zfcp-0x5006048ad52cea89:0x07
 
  01-part1 -
  ../../sda1
 
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 12 14:45
  ccw-0.0.d000-zfcp-0x5006048ad52cea89:0x07
 
  01-part2 -
  ../../sda2
 
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 12 14:45
  ccw-0.0.d000-zfcp-0x5006048ad52cea89:0x07
 
  01-part3 - ../../sda3
 
 
 
  cat partitions
 
  major minor  #blocks  name
 
 
 
 8 0   20971200 sda
 
 8 1 522112 sda1
 
 8 22096482 sda2
 
 8 3   18338197 sda3
 
   253 0   20971200 dm-0
 
   253 1 522112 dm-1
 
   253 22096482 dm-2
 
   253 3   18338197 dm-3
 
  $
 
 
  Here?s the cat /proc/modules output from the shell:
 
  cat
  /proc/modules
 
  scsi_dh_alua 10688 0 - Live
  0x03e000135000
 
  scsi_dh_rdac 10196 0 - Live
  0x03e000131000
 
  scsi_dh_hp_sw 6584 0 - Live
  0x03e000115000
 
  scsi_dh_emc 11120 0 - Live
  0x03eb1000
 
  dm_round_robin 4504 1 - Live
  0x03e55000
 
  sd_mod 48336 1 - Live
  0x03e00016c000
 
  crc_t10dif 2288 1 sd_mod, Live
  0x03e36000
 
  dm_snapshot 25048 0 - Live
  0x03e000129000
 
  dm_multipath 26736 2 dm_round_robin, Live
  0x03e000121000
 
  dm_mod 97888 8 dm_snapshot,dm_multipath, Live
  0x03ee8000
 
  scsi_dh 10036 5
  scsi_dh_alua,scsi_dh_rdac,scsi_dh_hp_sw,scsi_dh_emc,dm_multipath, Live
  0x03ead000
 
  zfcp 137304 1 [permanent], Live 0x03e000149000
 
 
  qdio 65912 1 zfcp, Live
  0x03e000103000
 
  scsi_transport_fc 60180 1 zfcp, Live
  0x03e45000
 
  scsi_tgt 17544 1 scsi_transport_fc, Live
  0x03e3f000
 
  scsi_mod 247096 9
  scsi_dh_alua,scsi_dh_rdac,scsi_dh_hp_sw,scsi_dh_emc,sd_mod,scs
 
  i_dh,zfcp,scsi_transport_fc,scsi_tgt, Live
  0x03e6f000
 
  ext3 199376 0 - Live
  0x03eb6000
 
  mbcache 11748 1 ext3, Live
  0x03e39000
 
  jbd 87624 1 ext3, Live 0x03e58000
 
  $
 
  May not be important but we had two other SLES11 guests in the same LPAR
  have the same problem (total of 3).  zVM was restarted - the two other
  failing guests booted successfully.
 
 
  On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote:
 
On 1/11/2010 at 04:23 PM, Joe Martin widet.jmar...@gmail.com
 wrote:
I did catch the error in the fstab and put the mount for /boot after
 the
mount for /.
  
   Did that change anything?  If not, when you get dumped into the shell,
 can
   you see any of your devices in /dev, or /proc/partitions?  Is the zfcp
   driver loaded (cat /proc/modules)?
  
  
   Mark Post
  
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 Joe,

 Here are some things that I would check:

 Is the pchid online on the SE for d000?
 Is the chpid online on the SE for d000?
 Did someone change the NPIV settings on the SE for the chpid for d000?
 Were there any zoning changes?
 Did someone 

Re: intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Shawn Wells

On 01/13/2010 09:32 AM, Melancon, Ruddy wrote:

I have been in your situatuion before.  I would try the Centos for your project 
since it is very closely related to Red Hat.  This way if management were to 
decide to spring for a supported license you could use Red Hat and be 
comfortable with the result.


And, more importantly, Red Hat has ways to bring you from CentOS to RHEL
in a supported manner without requiring a OS reinstall, should your
company ever chose to do so.  The other options (Debian, Fedora, etc)
don't have such methods to go from unsupported to supported without
wiping everything and starting anew.

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