It does work with 512M under VM with vswitch and installing from a FTP server.

Up to the point of your failure, there really isn't anything for you to do (or 
can mess up either).

The following is the exec for punching out the text decks needed to IPL from 
the reader:

/* SLES10 IPL */            
'CLOSE RDR'                 
'PURGE RDR ALL'             
'SPOOL PUN * RDR'           
'PUNCH VMRDR    IKR D (NOH' 
'PUNCH PARMFILE IKR D (NOH' 
'PUNCH INITRD   IKR D (NOH' 
'CHANGE RDR ALL      NOHOLD'
'IPL 00C CLEAR'             

I wonder if your IPL decks are proper?
I believe that INITRD and VMRDR had to be sent to VM in binary mode with quote 
site fix 80.
The other file had to be sent in ASCII mode so the protocol conversion is done.

Anyway, my PARMFILE looks like
ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxrc TERM=dumb

I had SLES9 running on z/VM 4.2, but I only attempted SLES10 on z/VM 5.2.  
SLES10 is a 64 bit only flavor.  Is your VM IPL'ed in 64 bit mode?

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

Law of Cat Stretching

  A cat will stretch to a distance proportional to the length of
  the nap just taken.


>>> David Booher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/16/2007 3:32 PM >>>
I bumped it to 2G -- no go!   This is Novell's SP1 release just downloaded from 
their website....

Bummer for sure!

dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:17 PM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: Betr.: IPL problem with SLES10/ zVM 4.4

On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Pieter Harder wrote:

> I think you need at least 768M to run the installer system.
>
I know I've done it in 512MB.

I don't know about 256MB, but probably not.

Adam

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