Mike, The DASDFMT corrected this problem. Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 1:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Red Hat 6 Installation on DASD William, > The installation fails with the window "Formatting failed": I think this is a bu... um, a "known issue" :)) In the draft RHEL 6 Virtualization Cookbook, we write: Important: If the minidisks 100-102 (dasdb-dasdd) have not been formatted for Linux by dasdfmt before this install, you should see a screen as shown in Figure 7-5 on page 112. However, there is a known issue in RHEL 6 whereby this screen is not shown and you don’t have the ability to format the disks through the installer. If you proceed without formatting the disks with dasdfmt, the install process will fail later. If this is the case, it is recommended that you perform the following steps: -) Start a second SSH session, this time logging is as root. -) Issue the command lsdasd. ... (dasdb - dasdd shown) -) Format the minidisks in parallel with the following for loop: # for i in b c d > do > dasdfmt -b 4096 -y -f /dev/dasd$i & > done See the top of http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/mikemac/ for the draft. (The issue seems to be related to the fact that it's difficult to tell when a disk needs to be formatted by looking at /proc/dasd/devices, and other such files). "Mike MacIsaac" <[email protected]> (845) 433-7061
