Hi Mark! I really appreciate your comments - it is nice to know us novices didn't screw things up!
We had considered every other alternative in preference to creating a 'boot cart' and *then* performing the rest of the install off a DVD that was loaded into the HMC's DVD drive, but we always found some technical/political reason why that would not be worth trying. You mention creating two DVD's, and IPLing from the DVD reader within the HMC - do you mean IPL'ing from the DVD directly? I do not think that that is possible, because we need to specify an MVS device address in the Activation Profile. (I have a vague recollection of confguring an HMC workstation to emulate an 'internal reader' function, but I did not investigate further, because it sounded a bit obscure to me, I guess I missed a trick there...) One a similar vein, I used Windows/XP's Roxio Creator to 'burn an ISO image' to DVD. A friendly face on this forum suggested that a Windows-based DVD burn *would not* properly create diectories, hard or symbolic links, thus rendering the DVD "corrupt" from a Linux point of view. I have had suspicions about my DVD burning techniques(!), and have spent some time 'surfing the web' to confirm that burning software CD/DVDs is fraught with problems. Would it be true to say that I *must* burn the SLES DVD with a linux DVD burner? If you are in the UK, Mark I would appreciate a telephone conversation (no committments offloaded on to you, I promise!), and I can provide my contact details. regards Rapp On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 2/10/2009 at 1:10 AM, bruce woodley <[email protected]> > wrote: > -snip- > > (The Suse SLES10 SP1/SP2 install failed because of mismatch between the > > TAPEIPL modules and the memory resident INITRD file system. I guess no > one > > at Suse/Novell thought anyone would install via a TAPEIPL in an native > LPAR, > > so did not test it... :-( ) > > That's kind of hard to believe, but it appears you are right. :( > TAPEIPL.IKR > Linux version 2.6.16.54-0.2.5-default (ge...@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 > 20070115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Apr 14 17:24:07 UTC 2008 > > VMRDR.IKR > Linux version 2.6.16.60-0.21-default (ge...@buildhost) (gcc version 4.1.2 > 20070115 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Tue May 6 12:41:02 UTC 2008 > > I have no idea why no one else has run into this before. I know lots of > people have been doing LPAR installs. Please try making a second copy of > the DVD and IPLing from the DVD reader in the HMC. That should work, and > won't require any network access to get the IPL started. In the meantime, > I'm going to have a little, umm, chat with our QA folks. > > > Mark > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
