Re: messed up DASD Mappings..

2010-08-30 Thread Mike Walter
not my employer's. "Daniel Tate" Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" 08/30/2010 12:19 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: messed up DASD Mappings.. Thanks! This was exactly wha

Re: messed up DASD Mappings..

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Tate
Thanks! This was exactly what i needed to get started. Once this was done i was able to link it (mw) and, because the machine with permissions to link to another disk was non-network-accessible, take a crash course on using ed to modify files :/ but the troubled system is back up. Thanks for y

Re: messed up DASD Mappings..

2010-08-30 Thread Richard Troth
If it looks like the others when you do a 'q v dasd' then it is a minidisk. Most likely, it is a "near full pack" minidisk, which means it starts at cylinder 1 (and z/VM owns cylinder 0). Attaching it directly means that the guest sees the whole disk, including cyl 0. Linux will not know what

Re: messed up DASD Mappings..

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Tate
Right on both accounts. I am unsure if it is a minidisk - it normally shows when i do a q v dasd just like all the others (minus VDSK) in the original post (CYL addressing), if that tells you anything On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Richard Troth wrote: > You attached the disk (the whole volu

Re: messed up DASD Mappings..

2010-08-30 Thread Richard Troth
You attached the disk (the whole volume) to that other guest. But ... the guest which owns it ... is it a minidisk? If so, then you want to 'link' it instead of 'attach' it. That's just for starters. Forgive me if you already know this, but it sounds like #1 you are in a minor crisis and #2

messed up DASD Mappings..

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Tate
I have a user with a corrupt filesystem. in attempting to move the DASD Containing the root disks, i detached the old disk: 00: DASD 9F80 VM6LX9 I need to reattach it to the original machine, but i also need to attach it to another guest, mount it and fix the corrupted files where it can boot.