Re: Adding DASD to Debian wheezy..
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
>
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Dave Jones
V/Soft Software
www.vsoft-software.com
Houston, TX
281.578.7544
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