Re tape handling, that's odd, because I got the same error using 2.17 as I got with 3.01. I suspect I did the original SLES8 install using somewhere around 2.15 though, and I don't have that version around anymore to try.
Thanks for the clarification about PARMFILE. I suspected it didn't matter, just wanted to be sure. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Adam Thornton > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES9 Evaulation Download - ISO problems? > > > On Nov 23, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > > > Do you mean tape marks between files are needed? Or shouldn't be > > there? > > Should not be there in 3.0 and later versions of Hercules; Hercules > changed tape handling in 3.0. > > > I moved the boot files over from the CD under Linux, but still got > > either full or partial failure (usually mounting the > ramdisk root FS) > > till I reformatted the files to end on a 1K boundary, and > removed the > > tape marks between files. > > Yes, the files need to be blocksize 1K, no tape marks between them. > > > The really odd thing about it was that I went back and tried to boot > > the install kernel from my SLES8 setup, and got exactly the same > > problem, but I KNOW everything was left exactly as it was when I > > successfully installed SLES8. Of course, that was 2 or 3 > versions of > > Hercules ago. > > Tape handling did indeed change. I think it was between 2.17 and 3.0, > but could have been 3.0 and 3.01. > > > > One question bugging me though: Is the PARMFILE supposed to be in > > ASCII or EBCDIC? I tried it both ways, but I forget which finally > > worked. When I tried it under VM, it was in ASCII, but some > old docs I > > found via Google search seem to imply it should be in > EBCDIC. That's > > where I got the idea that the files should be even multiple of 1K. > > Either way works. ASCII is obviously easier to work with on > a Hercules > host; EBCDIC on VM. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ -------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
