Mark,

Can a CHECKSUM be done at the source level to verify the INITRD file there?

Terry martin – Contractor
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-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Pace
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 10:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time

Is there an MD5 chksum routine for z/VM?


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Monday, 08/25/2014 at 10:21 EDT, "Martin, Terry Contractor"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Could the INITRD corrupted at the ISO level ? Or is it the Kernel 
> > Image
> that is
> > the problem? We have been concentrating on the INITRD file up to 
> > this
> point.
>
> It isn't the kernel since you can't see the kernel running.  As I said 
> previously, I think the ramdisk (INITRD) is corrupted.  Note the 
> "incomplete write".  Whether is was corrupted on upload to VM, to your 
> workstation, or at the source is TBD.  If it were at the source, then 
> everyone would have the same issue.
>
> Alan Altmark
>
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