Re: fcp disk under SUSE9

2009-03-10 Thread Robert J McCarthy
: fcp disk under SUSE9 We use FCP with SLES 9 all the time. Is your disk on two paths? If so, then you also need to have MPIO installed and running. (multipathd and boot.multipath) You ran mkinitrd and zipl, but did you notice if they were successful? Is /boot on its own disk? Is it mounted RW

Re: fcp disk under SUSE9

2009-03-10 Thread Robert J McCarthy
and then the vgchange Thanks, Bob -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 7:15 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: fcp disk under SUSE9 We use FCP with SLES 9 all the time

Re: fcp disk under SUSE9

2009-03-10 Thread Mark Post
On 3/10/2009 at 10:34 AM, Robert J McCarthy bob.mccar...@custserv.com wrote: Two additional pieces of information that I forget to mention. After the SUSE 9 guest is re-IPLed, the volume group can most of the time be activated by entering a vgchange -ay command. Occassionally this does not

Re: fcp disk under SUSE9

2009-03-08 Thread Mark Post
On 3/6/2009 at 11:15 AM, Robert J McCarthybob.mccar...@custserv.com wrote: We are attempting to use zfcp scsi devices with SuSE 9 sp4 (linux on z) We place a 10gb lun into a volume group. We have to manually create the volume groups since yast is not working for SUSE 9 (known issue)

fcp disk under SUSE9

2009-03-06 Thread Robert J McCarthy
We are attempting to use zfcp scsi devices with SuSE 9 sp4 (linux on z) We place a 10gb lun into a volume group. We have to manually create the volume groups since yast is not working fo r SUSE 9 (known issue) Once this procedue is completed, the disk is recognized and can be used for

Re: fcp disk under SUSE9

2009-03-06 Thread Richard Troth
We use FCP with SLES 9 all the time. Is your disk on two paths? If so, then you also need to have MPIO installed and running. (multipathd and boot.multipath) You ran mkinitrd and zipl, but did you notice if they were successful? Is /boot on its own disk? Is it mounted RW? Is the underlying