Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 01:34, Post, Mark K wrote: > Well, you've already spent more time trying to figure this out than you > would if you just do a re-install. So, why not try to "do it right" all the I already frowned upon someone reading channel programs and instruction streams in octal, but th

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Post, Mark K
ne. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sue Sivets Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk Mark, I did not run fdasd to partition the 151 disk. I didn't th

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Sue Sivets
2745 > 0010240 162745 162745 162745 162745 162745 162745 162745 162745 > * > 0014000 > 12+0 records in > 12+0 records out > > That's not a good sign either, perhaps, but I'm not 100% sure. > > Mark Post > > -Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Sue Sivets
Thank you Rob, this looks like something I need. I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to email you privately for more info and a little help, since it looks like I'm going to also have to install cms pipelines along with vmarc and I don't know what else. Sue Rob van der Heij wrote: > As far as fo

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Post, Mark K
#x27;m not 100% sure. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sue Sivets Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk Hi Mark, I ipl'ed from the VM reader, and I&

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Sue Sivets
so don't use /dev/dasdb1, or /dev/dasdb2, etc. > > Also, what virtual device number do you IPL from? > > Mark Post > > -Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sue > Sivets > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:08 PM > T

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
As far as formatting the disks before doing YaST, it's probably time for a shameless plug again. http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?CMS2CDL "The CMS2CDL program takes a minidisk that has been formatted by the CMS FORMAT command and modifies it such that it looks like a disk that

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Nix, Robert P.
alf Of Doug Bulbeck > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk > > Hi Sue, > > I had the same symptoms when I was installing SLES 8. It appears that when > Yast was formatting the partitions that i

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-05 Thread Doug Bulbeck
rom: Sue Sivets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 4, 2004 8:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk Hi Rob, Q SET shows Machine ESA, and I changed the storage to 256M after the first install attempt because the ramdisk system spits out a message saying

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-04 Thread Post, Mark K
- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sue Sivets Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk Hi Mark, when I first read your message I thought you were joking, but I'm almost hoping that you are

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-04 Thread Sue Sivets
ssage- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob > van der Heij > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:08, Sue Sivets wrote: > > I just

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-04 Thread Sue Sivets
Hi Rob, Q SET shows Machine ESA, and I changed the storage to 256M after the first install attempt because the ramdisk system spits out a message saying it really needs that much in order to install without problems. I'm not too sure what you mean about the contents of /boot changing after zipl an

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-04 Thread Post, Mark K
ubject: Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:08, Sue Sivets wrote: > I just finished installing Suse Linux on a VM mini disk (previous installs were > in standalone lpars). When I tried to ipl the system for the first time I > received the following message: &g

Re: Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:08, Sue Sivets wrote: > I just finished installing Suse Linux on a VM mini disk (previous installs were > in standalone lpars). When I tried to ipl the system for the first time I > received the following message: > HCPGIR453W CP entered; program interrupt loop > S

Ipl problem after instal on vm mdisk

2004-02-04 Thread Sue Sivets
I just finished installing Suse Linux on a VM mini disk (previous installs were in standalone lpars). When I tried to ipl the system for the first time I received the following message: HCPGIR453W CP entered; program interrupt loop Since I wasn't at all sure the ipl text really was written