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22.4. Configuring IPL from a SCSI Device

Anaconda (the installation program) supports the direct installation to SCSI devices. This section includes information on how to IPL from a SCSI device within z/VM.

22.4.1. IPL the SCSI Disk
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To IPL the SCSI disk, we provide the WWPN and LUN to the machine loader using the SET LOADDEV command. 
#cp set loaddev portname 50050763 00c18154 lun 57190000 00000000
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:47:53
q loaddev
PORTNAME 50050763 00C18154    LUN  57190000 00000000    BOOTPROG 0
BR_LBA   00000000 00000000
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:47:56
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IPL the SCSI disk using the FCP device defined to the guest. 
q fcp
00: FCP  010A ON FCP   010ACHPID C1 SUBCHANNEL = 0000
00:      010A QDIO-ELIGIBLE       QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:51:29

i 010a
00: I 010A
00: HCPLDI2816I Acquiring the machine loader from the processor
controller.
00: HCPLDI2817I Load completed from the processor controller.
00: HCPLDI2817I Now starting machine loader version 0001.
01: HCPGSP2630I The virtual machine is placed in CP mode due to a SIGP
stop and
store status from CPU 00.
00: MLOEVL012I: Machine loader up and running (version 0.13).
00: MLOPDM003I: Machine loader finished, moving data to final storage
location.
Linux version 2.6.7-1.451.2.3 (bhcompile@example.z900.redhat.com) (gcc
version 3.4
.1 20040702 (Red Hat Linux 3.4.1-2)) #1 SMP Wed Jul 14 17:52:22 EDT 2004
We are running under VM (64 bit mode)
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Note

The example may vary slightly from your installed system due to the code available during the documentation process for this manual.
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