Thanks Phil that is the way to do it. But now I can see the real problem. I have to go through the firewall http server at 10.74.12.13 perhaps I have the parm line wrong to start with.. Any suggestions?
root=live:http://thuegel:[email protected]:portx0x0/ dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fed ora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img [ 4.746161] dracut: fetching http://thuegel:[email protected]:portx0x0/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedo ra/s390x/os/images/install.img http://thuegel:[email protected]:portx0x0/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.74.12.13: Network is unreachable [ 4.755042] dracut: FATAL: failed to download live image: error 1 [ 4.755055] dracut: Refusing to continue [ 4.760515] dracut Warning: Mounting root via 'eth0' failed dracut Warning: Mounting root via 'eth0' failed On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:37:27AM -0800, Tom Huegel wrote: > > Still having a problem, but I think the solution may be simple. > > The problem (I think) is that in the new GENERIC PRM file the "root=" > parm > > is longer than 80 characters. I am installing with z/VM and need to > 'punch' > > that file to the reader. Punch files can only be 80 bytes, so the > question > > is 'How can the root= parm be continued?'. > > Can't you simply continue on the next line? IIRC the lines 80 byte lines > are > simply concatenated without spaces. > > Kind regards > Philipp Kern > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
