Hi, On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:15:10PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote: > Honestly, I would propose a different approach to limit the DASD device > available to the Debian installer. I believe that typical customer > environments have set up their LPARs (and z/VM guest virtual machines) > to limit the number of devices to those required/designated for the LPAR. > > Of course, there can be the case where LPARs almost have access to (almost) > every device. For this case, the solution is to use "cio_ignore" kernel > parameter. With this kernel parameter you can control the devices that > are visible to the Linux instance. > > For example, > > cio_ignore=all,!ipldev,!condev,!0.0.da00-0.0.da10 > > ignores all devices except the console device, the IPL device, and the > range of devices from 0.0.da00 to 0.0.da10 that might be DASDs or any > other devices. Note that you can change the cio_ignore settings at runtime, > so you can later make additional devices visible. > > With this solution, there is no hardcoded limit necessary and the user > can still see the list of DASDs to be configured. > > What do you think?
it'd be nice to see that in the installation manual, I think, so that it's at least documented. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern
