Selecting the Type of Start You Want to Perform
- Displays messages about errors encountered in IPL parameter processing.
- Displays messages about errors encountered in configuration file processing.
- Displays a message for each CP-owned volume that is offline.
Be sure all required volumes are mounted and online before continuing. If you continue initialization and there are spool volumes offline, you will receive messages indicating the volumes that are offline and the impact their absence will have. You then have an opportunity to end initialization without causing a loss of spool files or to continue initialization.
- Asks you to specify the type of start you want to perform.
- Specify a warm start, force start, cold start, or clean start.
If an automatic IPL has been enabled using a FEATURES statement in the system configuration file, CP attempts a start without changing the TOD clock. If the TOD clock is not set or the specified type start cannot be performed, CP will prompt the operator for more information. If an automatic start is not enabled CP goes through all the usual prompts in the IPL process.
- Cancel the process of bringing up z/VM.
- Modify the type of start with the DRAIN or DISABLE options.
- Bring up the system without the user directory by specifying the NODIRECT option.
- Bring up the system without autologging any users beyond the operator virtual machine by specifying the NOAUTOLOG option.
If you do not receive CP's prompt for the type of start you want to perform, check the status of any DASD you share with another processor complex. If an operating system running on another processor complex has reserved a shared DASD, CP does not finish initializing until the other system releases the device. To release the device, contact the operator of the other system and follow your installation's normal procedures.