On 2009-12-23, Marry Martin wrote: > Unfortunately the list is empty (recognizes none) and then prompts me > to enter an address, which, of course fails. > > Thanks again, ..............Larry
When you get to the screen that is supposed to show the recognized dasd devices, and nothing shows up, open another SSH session in another window on your desktop. Login as "installer" using the password that you specified earlier, but don't run the installer menu. Instead, escape to a shell. First of all, make sure that the dasd drivers are loaded # lsmod You should see both "dasd_mod" and "dasd_eckd_mod" as loaded modules. If not, manually load them with modprobe. If that doesn't work, you've got serious problems. Did you mess with the installer components to be downloaded? Did you deselect some of them? If both modules are loaded, issue # cd /sys/bus/ccw/devices # ls -Al|more You should see a directory listed for each device number recognized, regardless of whether it is dasd or not. It will be of the form 0.0.nnnn, where "nnnn" is a hexadecimal number. (Note that hex digits a-f are lower case!) See if the device is listed there. If it is, cd to that directory. For example, # cd 0.0.108e # ls -Al You can check the values of these variables with "cat". For example, # cat online If it responds with "0", then the device was recognized, but it is offline. Check the "use_diag" and "readonly" variables to make sure they are zero as well, then try to set the device online with # echo 1 >online Then verify that it came online with another # cat online This time, it should say "1", which means that it is online. If this works, do the same for your other volume: # cd ../0.0.108f . . . If that works, then come back to the original install session, select "Back", then invoke that step again. With luck, it will find the dasd devices now. P.S. Please do not attach my entire original e-mail at the end of your next posting. Just quote the relevant portions with the > character above your response. Also, please try to keep your input lines to a maximum of 80 characters. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
