> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Dembry > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:46 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Suse S390 help? > > > > Maybe. Can't hurt to ask so, ask away. I have successfully installed > > SLES-10-RC3 on Hercules/390 running on an AMD Athlon64 > running SLES 10.1 > > at home. As my college Russian teacher used to say: "Easy! > Easy!" (she > > was a native Russian trying to teach Texans, poor lady!) > Thanks. I get all the way to the install when it is > partitioning the drives > and it fails trying to write the disk label on /dev/dasda. > Your Russian > teacher was correct, it was "Easy! Easy!" right up to this > point. The error > message is > > Storage Modification Failed > System Error -1007 > > Trying to write disk label msdos to /dev/dasda > > Not obvious why SUSE would want to write a disk label of "msdos" to > /dev/dasda. > Regards, > Paul
The only question that comes to my mind is whether you told the installed to do a "dasdfmt" of the volume in question? The Hercules "dasdinit" is not sufficient (even though required) because it does not format the tracks into 4K records that z/Linux requires. Why "msdos" indeed? What filesystem type did you choose? I used ext3, not ResierFS. SUSE seems to be enamored of ResierFS for some reason. But I remember seeing messages here about it not being the best idea on the s390 version of z/Linux. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
