Hi Brad, I took you advice and put everything in the parm file. I have the following in my parm file: root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000 DASD=0.0.0100,0.0.0101 HOSTNAME=gpok6.endicott.ibm.com NETTYPE=qeth IPADDR=10.0.0.6 SUBCHANNELS=0.0.0800,0.0.0801,0.0.0802 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 SEARCHDNS=endicott.ibm.com BROADCAST=10.0.0.255 GATEWAY=10.0.0.1 DNS=9.0.2.11 MTU=1500 PORTNAME=UNASSIGNED PORTNO=0 LAYER2=0 vnc vncpassword=123456
When the virtual server IPL 000C, which is where the kernel, parm, and initrd are punched to, I get the following message: Which kind of network device do you intend to use (e.g. ctc, iucv, qeth, lcs). Enter 'qeth' for OSA-Express Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet (including 1000Base-T), High Speed Token Ring, and ATM (running Ethernet LAN emulation) features in QDIO mode. Enter 'lcs' for OSA 2 Ethernet/Token Ring, OSA-Express Fast Ethernet in non-QDIO mode, OSA-Express High Speed Token Ring in non-QDIO mode and Gigabit Ethernet in non-QDIO mode. It looks like the parm file was never read. I see this at the beginning when the virtual server IPLed 000C: RDR FILE 0121 SENT FROM LINUX254 PUN WAS 0142 RECS 048K CPY 001 A NOHOLD NOKEEP RDR FILE 0122 SENT FROM LINUX254 PUN WAS 0143 RECS 0005 CPY 001 A NOHOLD NOKEEP RDR FILE 0123 SENT FROM LINUX254 PUN WAS 0144 RECS 117K CPY 001 A NOHOLD NOKEEP 00: NO FILES CHANGED Linux version 2.6.18-128.el5 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:45:02 EST 2008 We are running under VM (64 bit mode) Detected 2 CPU's Boot cpu address 0 Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 131072 Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000 DASD=0.0.0100,0.0.0101 HOSTNAME=gpok6.endicott.ibm.com NETTYPE=qeth IPADDR=10.0.0.6 SUBCHANNELS=0.0.0800,0.0.0801,0.0.0802 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 SEARCHDNS=endicott.ibm.com BROADCAST=10.0.0.255 GATEWAY=10.0.0.1 DNS=9.0.2.11 MTU=1500 PORTNAME=UNASSIGNED PORTNO=0 LAYER2=0 What could be wrong? --------------------------------- Thang Pham IBM Poughkeepsie --------------------------------- From: Brad Hinson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 10/31/2009 11:17 AM Subject: Re: RHEL install Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> Hi Thang, Yes, you can definitely install without a CONF file. You would just put everything into the PARM file, and not specify CMSCONFFILE= or CMSDASD=. In fact, this is how it's done with zPXE, the PXE client for cobbler/Satellite. For example, see here: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/SssThreeNinety (sample PARM file towards the bottom) Keep in mind though that the PARM file has an architectural limit of 11 lines (880 characters), so you have to be clever and fit as many parameters on an 80 character line as possible. -Brad Thang Pham wrote: > Is there a way to install RHEL on s390x architecture without the need to > specify a CONF file and putting the CONF file on a CMS disk? Can I append > the configuration onto the PARM file and punch it to reader (which I tried > but does not work)? > > According to Red Hat, "A .parm file is still required for the real kernel > parameters, such as root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000, and > single parameters which are not assigned to variables, such as vnc. Two > parameters which are used in z/VM installs to point the installation > program at the new CMS configuration file need to be added to the .parm > file: > > CMSDASD=191 CMSCONFFILE=redhat.conf > > CMSDASD is the device ID of the CMS formatted DASD which contains the > configuration file. CMSDASD is often the 'A' DASD (usually disk 191) of > the z/VM guest account. The name of the configuration file must be set > with CMSCONFFILE and needs to be all lowercase." ( > http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Installation_Guide/s1-s390-steps-vm.html > ) > > Thank you, > --------------------------------- > Thang Pham > IBM Poughkeepsie > --------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Brad Hinson <[email protected]> Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z Red Hat, Inc. (919) 754-4198 www.redhat.com/z ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
