In the redhat.conf file I think you need to use lower case letters for the device number triple.
Try SUBCHANNELS="0.0.e017,0.0.e018,0.0.e019" Cliff Laking IBM United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:00:08 -0500 From: Sue Sivets <[email protected]> Subject: Rhel 5.4 install problems I'm trying to install Rhel 5.4 under VM, and it's not doing what I think it should be doing as far as the redhat.conf file is concerned. I installed Rhel 5.3 a couple of months ago (using the redhat parm & conf files), so I copied both the parm and conf files from that system to the 191 disk for the new machine, and updated the conf file with the correct information. Then I copied the kernal & initrd files from the Rhel 5.4 dvd. I think everything is setup correctly, and I'm not getting any messages that look like error messages, but after I punch the files to the reader and ipl it, I'm getting prompted for the dasd and network information, as if the software either doesn't see the cmsconffile info in the parm file, or as if it doesn't even know the conf file exists. On the 5.3 install, the system prompted me for the password that I wanted to use for root, the 5.4 system is not doing that, but it does tell me when I can log in to the new system as user root, using SSH. Of course when I try to do that, I get prompted for roots password. If there is a default, I don't know what it is, and so far everything I've tried in both upper and lower case has not worked. The redhat.parm file is: root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000 CMSDASD=191 CMSCONFFILE=redhat.conf The redhat.conf file is: HOSTNAME="red54.idp.com" DASD="0500-8f27" NETTYPE="qeth" IPADDR="192.168.250.245" SUBCHANNELS="0.0.E017,0.0.E018,0.0.E019" NETWORK="192.168.250.0" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" BROADCAST="192.168.250.255" SEARCHDNS="idp.com" GATEWAY="192.168.250.161" DNS="192.168.150.156" MTU="1500" LAYER2="0" VSWITCH="1" PORTNAME=" " PORTNO="0" Does anyone have any idea of how to make this install work? I don't really mind having to enter the information manually, but the password part of the problem has stopped me cold, and I don't see any way of going any further without fixing whatever is causing the password promt to not happen. If anyone knows what the default password is, I would appreciate knowing what it is, so I can at least get logged on and hopefully get the system installed. I can always change the root password later on. Thank you to anyone who's got any ideas. Sue Sivets -- Suzanne Sivets Systems Programmer Innovation Data Processing 275 Paterson Ave Little Falls, NJ 07424-1658 973-890-7300 Fax 973-890-7147 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
