The way to tell if the ISO is corrupted is with MD5 checksums. All the ISO files I've seen made available by SuSE and RH have the MD5 checksum values so that you can verify them.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Alan. > < If it were at the source, then everyone would have the same issue.> > > I don't think this was tried anywhere else other than at the z/VM level. > The x86 REDHAT folks loaded the ISO files to a HTTP server for us and we > downloaded it from there. We used the PCOMM SEND/REC protocol first and > then FTP to download to z/VM to no avail . So not sure how to tell if the > source (At the ISO level) is corrupted or not? > > Terry martin - Contractor > Cell - 443 854-2452 > Office (NCC) - 410 965-8682 > Email - [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Alan Altmark > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 10:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time > > 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 > > Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and > Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > mobile; 607.321.7556 > [email protected] > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
