On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:00:18 -0400 Ray Mansell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've spent several frustrating hours trying in vain to install Fedora, > both in text mode and using VNC, but it never actually gets as far as > inviting me to connect to complete the installation. The network is > active (I can ping the server), but that's all. I'm sure I must be doing > something wrong, but with no apparent documentation to guide me, it's > hard to work out what it might be. please read the release notes from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x/19 and also for the older releases (18, 17). The installer switched from the old configuration script to using dracut based initial network and storage configuration, so I think you need to adapt the root= variable. Dan > These are the last few messages I see on my host 3270 session: > > [ [32m OK [0m] Started udev Coldplug all Devices. > Starting dracut initqueue hook... > Starting Show Plymouth Boot Screen... > [ [32m OK [0m] Reached target System Initialization. > [ 5.470279] dasdconf.sh Warning: 0.0.4105 is already online, not > configuring > [ [32m OK [0m] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. > [ [32m OK [0m] Reached target Paths. > [ [32m OK [0m] Reached target Basic System. > dracut-initqueue[484]: Warning: Could not boot. > [ [32m OK [0m] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. > [ [32m OK [0m] Reached target Paths. > [ [32m OK [0m] Reached target Basic System. > dracut-initqueue[484]: Warning: Could not boot. > dracut-initqueue[484]: Warning: /dev/ram0 does not exist > Starting Dracut Emergency Shell... > Warning: /dev/ram0 does not exist > > Generating "/run/initramfs/sosreport.txt" > > > Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue. > Type "journalctl" to view system logs. > You might want to save "/run/initramfs/sosreport.txt" to a USB stick > or /boot > after mounting them and attach it to a bug report. > > If you can help me get past this, I would be very happy! > > Thank you, > Ray Mansell > > On 7/16/2013 08:33, Dan Horák wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Fedora 19 GA release for the IBM System z is here. This time two weeks > > later than the primary mainly because me being on vacation. It's hard > > for me to take time off work when there are always some deadlines in > > sight :-) And again we are closer to primary when we count the number > > of available packages. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
