> The 'Creating initrd' stage repeatedly hangs at 62% completed. I have seen > references to this in the archives, but no definite culprits. Memory is set at > 512M, with 4 non-diag vdisk swap disks. I made ramdisk_size=196608. The > installation server has been configured with mkinstallroot. There are no new > console messages when it hangs, and the server itself is still available.
This sounds familiar. Even though you should have seen some kernel call traces on the console which indicate a kernel panic. What you probably want are the PTFs for z/VM APAR VM63771. These are unfortunately not yet available but should be soon. The PTFs will fix a bug in z/VM's memory management which reported erroneously read only pages being written to (dirty) to Linux' memory management which in turn would result in a kernel panic, since these pages were not supposed to be dirty. This happened especially when z/VM was under memory pressure and was running with XSTORE configured. Heiko ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
