On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:28:56PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I've just installed Caiman under Hercules (P3-450), and am deeply impressed > that it works at all. The only wart so far seems to be that rm reliably > segfaults just after unlinking, which is odd - seems like an ideal excuse to > experiment with building fileutils, though. > > (Still chrooted from the installation system - what's the quickest way to > make the freshly installed system bootable?)
I wasn't able to get SILO to boot directly from an emulated DASD; if you figure it out, let me know. The complicating factor is that dasd support isn't compiled into the Caiman kernel; you'll need to load it from an initrd I think. There is a script on the installation system to switch into the new root device, but I couldn't get it to work. I don't have much experience with initrd, and pivot_root isn't included in the version of util-linux that was in the base system I downloaded (I think may be a newer one now). > Out of interest, why isn't the binary-s390 tree on auric being used for this? > At the moment it only seems to contain essential/required and a few other > bits of the base system - no glibc, even. If I can get packages building > under Hercules, can I help with uploading things there, or is the Debian port > tree not being used for some reason? According to http://www.debian.org/ports/s390/, it's "because core packages such as binutils and gcc are very unstable." -- - mdz
