dukessd is absolutely correct! You are doing it all wrong because you do not understand:

OK, but most critical: where are the (physical) SCSI adapters? The way you describe it you do not even have one and how are the disks supposed to be connected to the system, hm? dukessd said already that you probably have only one SCSI adapter and this is already taken by the first system you install.

No, i meant what i said: Linux virtualisation is: take some hardware, install Linux, install some software (for instance "Openbox") on top, then create several instances of running Openbox-processes (aka "virtual machines"), then install some OS of your choice into each of these virtual machines.

IBM virtualisation is: connect the MS to the HMC, create some LPAR profiles and install into each LPAR an OS. The "HW-host-OS-virtualisation-software" part of a virtualised Linux system is all in hardware.




Yes, because you seemingly have only one SCSI adapter, for chrissakes! You can add this adapter to several LPARs in the same way you can promise the same 10-Dollar-bill to several people. But finally, either you are going to have as many bills as people you made a promise to or all (except one) are going to be very disappointed. What you see is a LPAR which you have promised a SCSI adapter which it cannot get because you gave it to another system first. Switch off the first LPAR and you perhaps can boot the second LPAR without a problem (but as long as it runs you will not be able to boot the first - for the same reasons).

Well, i run some 40 managed systems with about 300 LPARs distributed on them, more or less the whole midrange IT of a big bank. I dare say if the system would be so bad as you describe that should not be possible. I might start with

which is a non-supported setup. You might not know that, because reading the documentation is below real experts, but this - along with several other necessary things you may not have done and things you didn't do according to the requirements - may also have led to your frustration. It takes very little creativeness from my side to come up with a possible course of action leading to the problems you encounter.

So you might want to reconsider your take on this and start with learning and only critisize things you have a well-founded knowledge about.

I hope this helps.

bakunin