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.
> >
> >
> 
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