looks very similar to the problem that I've been having with Hercules-390. And similar to this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830915 But no resolution was shown in that series of posts. To be blunt, I don't think FC17 is ready for prime time. Of course, that is part of the reason for the existence of Fedora. I've simply not had any time to mess around with trying a solution. My DVD burner won't (burn DVDs properly). But once I get a good DVD burned, I plan to try a "bare metal LPAR" install using the HMC's DVD on the company's z9BC. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Tom Huegel > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Install FEDORA problem (was Where to get zLINUX) > > 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> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
