I found the problem. I was punching the files as one continues entity. That was incorrect. Thanks to all who answered. On to greater things.
-----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat Beta This looks like the initrd was not punched to the virtual reader. Can you verify that there are three files in the reader, and what their names are? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Causey, James F. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RedHat Beta I'm trying to IPL the RedHat Taroon beta in a vm and am failing. Here's the last few lines of the console log: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 8028EC48 I've downloaded the img files, fixed 80 binary; created a virtual network; created a parm file: root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off DASD=0200-020F CHANDEV=qeth0,0x700,0x701,0x702 QETHPARM=add_parms,0x10,0x700,0x702,portname:LANONE HOST=zzzzzz.southernco.com:qeth0:192.168.50.33:1500 NETWORK=192.168.0.0:255.255.255.224:192.168.50.255:192.168.50.32 DNS=valid ip address SEARCHDNS=southernco.com Has anyone seen this?
