I found the FEDORA files I needed at this website:

http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s390x/os/images/

and downloaded:
ascii
get generic.prm
get redhat.exec
locsite fix 80
binary
get kernel.img
get initrd.img
Then I ran the exec to IPL from the reader and things looked pretty good at
first.
But... then I got this message:

[    0.176357] Unpacking initramfs...
[    2.318203] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
[    2.320799] Freeing initrd memory: 18750k freed
Followed a bit later with this one:

[   24.539091] dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
[   24.539322] dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist

I don't understand what the problem is, can someone point me in the right
direction?

Thanks




On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]>wrote:

> Mark,
>
> > If you were looking for something like the Redbooks that Mike MacIsaac
> > has written, there aren't any.  He's pretty much stuck with writing
> > about the two distribution providers that IBM has contracts with,
> > SUSE and Red Hat.
> Correct.
>
> But I remember someone with the initials MP helped to write a Redbook
> "Linux for S/390 and zSeries: Distributions". Oh wait, that was 11 years
> ago (scary) - guess it's a bit old...
>
> "Mike MacIsaac" <mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com>
>
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