I am able to boot from the reader and go through most of the install process, sorry for any confusion there. My problem is with writing out to the defined /boot disk. I've run the machine at 128M, 256M and 512M, all to no avail. I use FTP and VNC/web to install.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SuSE SLES8 and z/VM 5.1 problem You say you're not able to boot SLES8 from the virtual reader, but then you say you get all the way through the install, but the writing of the IPL text fails. That's a little confusing. I've seen various programs through out "bus errors" in the past when there wasn't enough virtual storage on the system. How much virtual storage does this guest have defined, and which installation method (VNC, SSH, whatever) are you using? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wiggins, Mark Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SuSE SLES8 and z/VM 5.1 problem OK, brief history and then my question. We just purchased a z890, moved our current z/VM 3.1.0 system to the GP and installed z/VM 5.1 on the IFL. I moved over 2 different flavors of Linux (Debian and Redhat) to the IFL and they work great. With the purchase of our new box we received SuSE licensing. Here's my question: I'm able to bring SuSE SLES8 up on z/VM 3.1 and it works fine. I'm able to move the instance to the z/VM 5.1 system and it works fine there. What I'm not able to do is boot SLES8 from the reader on z/VM 5.1. I go through most of the install process in YAST right up to the point of "Prepare system for initial boot". It won't write out the IPL records to my boot disk. I receive the below error on the VM console and I end up with an non-IPL'able disk on VM. When I look at it with DDR, I don't see the first 2 "IPL" records that I see on other Linux boot disks. User process fault: interruption code 0x60038 , CPU: 0 Tainted: P , Process y2base (pid: 666, task: 0000000007890000, ksp: 0000000007893b88) , User PSW : 0705e00180000000 0000010000077f5e , User GPRS: 0000000000000001 000001000001f6d0 7865637574652063 000001ffffffce18 , 00000100000e0de8 00000100002d6902 000001ffffffd098 000001ffffffd1e8 , 000001ffffffcee8 0000000080009250 0000000000000000 0000000080043cc0 , 0000010000016e88 00000100000ccb20 0000010000077f3e 000001ffffffce18 , User ACRS: 00000100 002e5720 00000000 00000000 , 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 , 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 , 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 , User Code: e3 40 20 00 00 04 a7 3b 00 d0 e3 10 40 20 00 04 0d e1 c0 30 , /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/YaST2: line 296: 666 Bus error y2base "$modulename" $moduleargs qt -style=platinum -fn $Y2_XFONT , -geometry 800x600+1+1 -no-wm $qt_bg" umount: /var/adm/mount: not mounted" Dec 1 21:32:15 suse sshd]182(: Received signal 15; terminating."" "]0;37;40m *** An error occurred during the installation! Has anyone seen this before? I've tried writing to 3380, 3390 and 9336 disks. I've tried formatting them in VM, in Linux, on the 3.1 system, all to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. One last note, the "interruption code" changes depending (I think) on which type of device I'm trying to write too. Mark Wiggins University of Connecticut Operating Systems Programmer 860-486-2792 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
