On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:46:04 +0000
"Martin, Terry Contractor" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here is a copy of the PARMFILE that we are using now. We did try it
> with just the first line and that did not work either.
> 
> 
> 
> root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000
> 
> CMSDASD=991 CMSCONFFILE=RHEL65.CONF

I guess this is intentional 991 instead of 191... Could you please also
quote the RHEL65.CONF file from your 991 disk?

Berthold
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Berthold Gunreben Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 11:35 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time
> 
> 
> 
> could you please quote the parmfile that you use for the installation
> here somewhere? One issue that is found in the logs is this one:
> 
> 
> 
>    No filesystem could mount root, tried:  iso9660
> 
> 
> 
> I guess that this actually should be a CPIO archive and nothing like
> 
> iso9660 (I am not from redhat, thus I never tried).
> 
> 
> 
> I also heard rumors, that the parmfile on redhat ISO images was
> sometimes corrupted, and thus it should be fixed before you can use
> it.
> 
> 
> 
> The message like
> 
> 
> 
>    RAMDISK: incomplete write (40960000 != 65745920)
> 
> 
> 
> also points to a broken parmfile. So, please show us the parmfile
> (this should actually only be a text file with maybe 2 lines, so no
> big deal for the list).
> 
> 
> 
> Berthold
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> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:55:33 +0000
> 
> "Martin, Terry Contractor"
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Alan,
> 
> >
> 
> > If the theory is that the INITRD file is somehow corrupted and say
> > the
> 
> > source (ISO) is ok could it be that it is getting messed up when
> 
> > transferring to our workstation first and then loading it from there
> 
> > to the z/Linux guest?
> 
> >
> 
> > If so can I take it directly from the HTTP server where the source
> 
> > files sit to the z/Linux guest skipping the load down to the
> 
> > workstation? If so what is the best way to do this? I can put the
> > HTTP
> 
> > URL in the parmfile?
> 
> >
> 
> > Thanks Alan!
> 
> >
> 
> > Terry martin - Contractor
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