I'm getting that too, but I thought it related to kickstart. Haven't had a chance to do a "normal" install yet.
You're not the only one seeing this. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Huegel Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LINUX-390] 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
