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  • 1.  LPAR Booting Process

    Posted Thu November 19, 2020 03:27 PM
    Is there any configuration that could be made too make the LPAR booting process a little bit more faster than by design in Power?

    The process before the actual operating system is booting takes a while (accourding to me).

    Screenshot from HMC when booting Ubuntu



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    Per Hillerström
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  • 2.  RE: LPAR Booting Process

    IBM Champion
    Posted Fri November 20, 2020 08:49 AM
    I see GRUB. So it's Linux.
    in AIX booting time mostly depends on the number of the physical disk adapters, especially FC.
    Physical = dedicates ti LPAR, not in VIOS.
    Or, maybe there is a wrong bootlist and system tries to find the boot device.

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    Dmitry Mironov
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  • 3.  RE: LPAR Booting Process

    Posted Mon November 23, 2020 01:14 AM

    Thanks for your reply!

    I will have a look at the boot list and see if I missed anything.



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    Per Hillerström
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  • 4.  RE: LPAR Booting Process

    Posted Thu February 25, 2021 02:14 PM
    If this is SLES, my experience says that boot time is heavily dependent on the total number of paths to all LUNs and number of LVs on these LUNs (if LVM is in use).
    Searching for root FS LV by UUID seems to be the reason (--set=root --hint='lvmid/XgDL6i-Cqxa-xYnE-1RYd-pfUH-DIOf-FYI4CH/YaHnGR-qR8Y-5q6G-yjIm-0GZq-xUbB-pNCee2').

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    Lech Szychowski
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  • 5.  RE: LPAR Booting Process

    Posted Fri February 26, 2021 12:56 AM
    That was Ubuntu.

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    Per Hillerström
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  • 6.  RE: LPAR Booting Process

    Posted Fri February 26, 2021 03:51 AM
    Take a look at the grub configuration file and check how does grub find the FS to mount.
    Unfortunately at the moment I do not have any Ubuntu around here, so I cannot do this myself.

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    Lech Szychowski
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