Dirk, The error message is saying that the system couldn't find the ramdisk you specified as your root file system. At the beginning of the IPL, the system should have echoed the contents of your parmfile, \tapes\PARMFILE.EBC. What did that show?
The fact that Hercules is finding the kernel is encouraging, but I don't understand why it's not finding the INITRD file. Make sure it exists and is in the correct location. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Pohl [mailto:dirk.pohl@;sercon.de] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kernel Panic 01:00 unable to mount rootfs at Installation Hi List I got the following problem at installation boot from tape ......... lvm -- Driver successfully initialized md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Partition check: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 <<<< CPU0000: SIGP CPU0001 Stop and store status PARM 00000000 CPU0000: Disabled wait state PSW=000A0000 8005684C HHC611I CPU0001 store status completed. Trying to install Suse on Hercules W32 . Hercules.cnf devlist 0020 3270 127.0.0.1 open 0021 3270 0022 3270 0023 3270 0120 3390 .\dasd\linux1.0120 [1200 cyls] open 0121 3390 .\dasd\linux2.0121 [20 cyls] open 0400 3088 192.168.253.4 on 00-04-AC-51-0A-49 open 0401 3088 192.168.253.4 on 00-04-AC-51-0A-49 open 0581 3420 ./tapes/awsoma.tdf ro [2:00000000] awsoma.tdf : @TDF \tapes\TAPEIPL.IKR FIXED RECSIZE 1024 TM \tapes\PARMFILE.EBC FIXED RECSIZE 1024 TM \tapes\INITRD FIXED RECSIZE 1024 TM TM EOT ****************************************************************** Help is welcome Mit freundlichen Gr��en -- Dirk Pohl Senior Consultant, Systems-Management und SAP/R3 Basis, SerCon GmbH EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
