Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Post, Mark K wrote: > I was thinking more of the zipl menu feature, not single user mode. I would suggest checking the local system zipl man page to be sure. I didn't see any mention of adding a menu feature to zipl in the s390-tools changelog, but I would expect the menu fea

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-31 Thread Post, Mark K
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Carlson Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:13 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1) On Mon, 29 May 2006, Post, Mark K wrote: > So that everyone on the mailing list will know, or be able

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-30 Thread Bill Carlson
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Post, Mark K wrote: > So that everyone on the mailing list will know, or be able to find the > information in the archives. I might be putting the answer on > linuxvm.org. I'm talking about the version and service pack level of > SLES. In my particular case, SLES 9, SP3. Ho

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-29 Thread Post, Mark K
ECTED] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 9:43 AM To: Post, Mark K Subject: Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1) On Thu, 25 May 2006, Post, Mark K wrote: > Which version and service pack level is that system at? Why do you ask? And are you referring to the guest OS or zVM? Bill

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-26 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Tom Shilson wrote: > Cool! Thank you very much! > > tom Hey Tom, I forgot the bit in zipl about the menu: --- :menu1 target = /boot/zipl 1 = ipl 2 = singleuser default = 1 timeout = 60 --- FYI, Bill Carlson -- Systems

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-25 Thread Post, Mark K
Which version and service pack level is that system at? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Carlson Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:40 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1) With a

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-25 Thread Tom Shilson
t com Fax: 651-736-7689 Bill Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 05/25/2006 11:40 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1) With a SLES guest under zVM, we have a menu item setup

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-25 Thread Bill Carlson
With a SLES guest under zVM, we have a menu item setup for single user boot through zipl: Example zipl.conf: - [defaultboot] defaultmenu = menu1 [ipl] target = /boot/zipl image = /boot/image ramdisk = /boot/initrd parameters = "root=/dev/dasdb1 selinux=0 T

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 5/24/06, Post, Mark K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The easiest way of finding out would be to look at the kernel source tree for the kernel SUSE ships. I doubt very much it got incorporated into SLES8, but you never know. I remember from discussions that something like that was done in Boebl

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-24 Thread Post, Mark K
n the end of it. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Shilson Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:48 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1) Hi all, Is there a way to boot a Lin-z system into s

Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-24 Thread Tom Shilson
Hi all, Is there a way to boot a Lin-z system into single user mode? (I use SLES 8 (2.4.21) and SLES 9 (2.6.5) ) I saw a patch to kernel 2.4 to allow multi-boot if you had multiple boot configurations in zipl. Is there another way? Was this patch picked up into the kernel? Thanks for the hel