Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-21 Thread Peter 1 Oberparleiter
Stephen Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16.07.2008 21:46:51: > > A "How zLinux boots" paper which describes not only how Linux does > > things, but how its fits into the VM/CMS/zOS world and compares and > > contrasts those booth paths with Linux's, and with a nice glossary > > that translates

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-16 Thread Peter 1 Oberparleiter
Stephen Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15.07.2008 22:51:17: > I know about the /boot/bootmap file, but I assumed that it contained data > only - location information for the kernel and initial RAM disk. From > what you're telling me, it sounds like what you call the "second stage > loader" o

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-15 Thread Peter 1 Oberparleiter
Stephen Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14.07.2008 20:58:36: > The problem is that the IPL records (other than the first two) are being > written, architecturally speaking, to the wrong place. I don't know where > zipl is writing its IPL records, other than the first two, but I am > assuming

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area

2008-07-10 Thread Peter 1 Oberparleiter
Stephen, as the current maintainer of zipl I'm trying to understand the reasoning behind your enhancement requests. The way I understand it you want to be able to use zipl on a CMS formatted disk to enable it for IPL. zipl does support CMS formatted disks (although not with the DIAG access meth

Bug#445148: fsck during system boot fails with separate /boot partition

2007-10-08 Thread Peter 1 Oberparleiter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08.10.2007 14:25:25: > I got exactly the same fsck error during boot and I'm fairly sure there are > no configuration errors as I checked several times both during and after > the installation. > - /etc/fstab is correct > - except for the fsck failure, the system boot

Bug#445148: fsck during system boot fails with separate /boot partition

2007-10-08 Thread Peter 1 Oberparleiter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08.10.2007 12:32:50: > I've reproduced the issue and my suspicion is that either the boot loader or > the kernel is failing to release /dev/dasda1 after the kernel and/or initrd > have been loaded which leads to fsck concluding that it is mounted. Judging from the da