Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-11 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
. Thanks to everyone that contributed. Enjoy the weekend. Peter Peter E Abresch/EP/PEP 04/07/2008 07:45 PM To Linux on 390 Port cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well Bingo!, what an idea. We use LVM so I simply detached all DASD except my root and IPL my Linux

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-11 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
gt; Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 04/11/2008 11:39 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well >>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:52 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter E. Abres

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-11 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:52 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With SLES10, I had the following menu: -snip- > What parameters can I specify in /etc/zipl.conf that will force Linux boot > selection into single usermode? -snip-

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Issue: zipl -x(it may be uppercase X - don't have a way to check right now) -- this eliminates the menu and boots the default right away. Scott Rohling On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With SLES10, I had the following menu: > >

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-11 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
into single usermode? Peter Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 04/08/2008 08:37 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well >>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:45

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-11 Thread Coffin Michael C
M To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well We have files,dns but one of the changes required by CAesm was the following: passwd: CA_esm compat group: CA_esm compat I am going to do some testing today now that I more relaxed. Peter "Stricklin

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:45 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bingo!, what an idea. We use LVM so I simply detached all DASD except my > root and IPL my Linux guest. It was a mess but it did enter single user > mode and prom

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-08 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
07:42 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well You know, I've seen this kind of thing result from having, for example, dns (or nis) listed before files in nsswitch.conf, and then the dns server become

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
wrong with CAesm. Thanks to everyone. I will post my final resolution. Peter "David K. Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 04/07/2008 05:08 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungar

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread Stricklin, Raymond J
L PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:11 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well > > Peter, > > It bothers me that you brought up a SLES10 system that did > not have an NFS mount and > it still did not

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well Peter, Did you bring a copy of your installation media? Could you boot it and then look at your restored system? How many NFS mounts are there? Are you saying you have waited 45 minutes and

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
Baldor-IS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 04/07/2008 04:37 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well Peter, Did you bring a copy of your installation media? Could you boot it and then l

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread David K. Kelly
Subject IST.EDU> Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well 04/07/2008 04:34 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Peter, Did you bring a copy of your installation media? Could you boot it and then look at your restored system? How many NFS mounts are there? Are you saying you have waited 45 minutes and not gotten a message indicating that one of your NFS mounts has been backgrounded or timed out? Have you

Betr.: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread Pieter Harder
Did you think of enabling the ascii console in the guest? If they let you touch the HMC you might get through that way. Assuming you didn't disable all non-network logins. Best regards, Pieter Harder [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 >>> "Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at

Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-07 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
We are at Sungard performing our yearly contingency test. Normally we restore our Linux DASD and IPL our Linux guest as a guest from Sungard?s z/VM system. We then logon to our Linux guest from z/VM, change the network configuration, reboot, and we are good to go. Usually we have to wait 10 min