Hello, Stephen. Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it it. I have found (accidentally :-) ) that if I simply do the touch command and not the update-initramfsm command, the kernel picks up the new device at the next boot as well. I'm coming from a RedHat/SUSE zLinux background, and finding out howe Debian (and gentoo, as well) do this common tasks is a bit of a challenge.
Thanks for the pointers to the bug list, they have some good information there.....and I am already well acquainted with your web pages on DASD_DIAG, etc. for Debian. :-) Have a good one, too. DJ On 10/26/2012 11:05 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:46:37 -0400 (EDT), Dave Jones wrote: >> >> Hello everyone. >> >> I have installed the latest version of Wheezy here and it is running >> very well; good job developers. I now want to add a new DASD drive and >> have it come on-line automatically at boot time....what is the approved >> "Debian way" of doing this? Will I have to do a mkinitrd and zipl as I >> do for RedHat or SuSE? >> >> Thanks and have a good weekend. > > Hi Dave. Wheezy uses sysconfig-hardware for this. To have the DASD > come online automatically, follow a procedure similar to the one below. > Do this as root. > > cd /etc/sysconfig/hardware > touch config-ccw-0.0.0204 > update-ministrants -uk $(uname -r) > > The above example assumes that the device number to be added is 0204. > Change this as appropriate for your system. > > There are some bug reports against sysconfig-hardware that you might > want to take a look at. They haven't been fixed, but the bug reports > show how to fix them. > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=sysconfig-hardware > > You might also find some of my web pages available on my web site > useful: > > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/index.htm > -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
