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Figure 5-5 Creating an initial ramdisk
Reinstall the boot loader
After a new initial ramdisk is created, we reinstall the boot loader (pointing to the
new initial ramdisk) using the zipl command. Rather than provide command line
parameters, we use the /etc/zipl.conf configuration file shown in Figure 5-6).
Figure 5-6 The /etc/zipl.conf file
5.3 Persistence SCSI disk naming with udev
At system boot in the Linux 2.4 kernel, SCSI disks are mapped to device node
names according to the order in which the LUNs are mapped. The mapping
order is typically determined by the address of the FCP device and the accessed ...