Ok, we finally got this to work. Ultimately we had to get FTP working and load using that. Even though the MD5 checksum done on z/VM against the images loaded on z/VM showed a different DISGEST value for the INITRD and KERNEL images from the original HTTP server source (ISO) we tried it anyway. Well it worked! So the difference was how we got it from our workstation to z/VM, which was using FTP instead of the PCOMM terminal emulator SEND/RECEIVE.
Not sure why the MD5 checksum did not match but I will talk to Dave to see If he has any idea as to why. Thanks for the help and hope this helps other folks who may run into the same issue. Terry -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stuart, David Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Terry, The thought that pops instantly to mind is 'code pages'. But I would presume that all these transfers were in binary... Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin, Terry Contractor Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 8:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Ok. I got a z/VM MD5 checksum from Dave. We ran it against the INITRD IMG and KERNEL IMG files and sure enough they did not match the MD5 value that was sent with the RHEL ISO for these two files. So the assumption is corrupted files. The files we downloaded from the HTTP source server to our workstation are good. We ran a MD5 checksum on those and they match. Our initial load of these files from our workstation down to z/VM was via the PCOMM terminal emulator SEND/RECEIVE. We MD5 checked these files and they don't match. So since we have some security issues at this shop currently using FTPSERVE we tried using FTP to move the files from our workstation to z/OS and then FTP from z/OS to z/VM. Note using FTP all the way through. We than did another MD5 checksum on the files on z/VM and they still don't match. So it looks like something is happening to the files on transfer to z/VM. Any help or ideas? Thanks, Terry -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Delivered to Terry off list. DJ On 08/25/2014 11:32 AM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: > Dave, > > You said you had a copy of a MD5 CHECKSUM REXX EXEC. Can I get a copy of that > and the directions on how I would run against the INITRD image file that is > sitting on my 'A' disk? > > 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 > Dave Jones > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 12:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time > > Alan is referring to the CMS/TSO Pipelines Runtime Library Distribution which > you can find here: > > http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline/ > > This version of Pipes supports significant new function over the version that > is shipped with z/VM. > > DJ > > On 08/25/2014 10:20 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: >> On Monday, 08/25/2014 at 10:56 EDT, Mark Pace >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Is there an MD5 chksum routine for z/VM? >> >> If you have the non-IBM CMS Pipelines runtime distribution, check out >> the "digest md5" stage. >> >> Alan Altmark >> >> Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z >> Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group, Endicott, NY >> office: 607.429.3323 >> mobile; 607.321.7556 >> [email protected] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - 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/ >> > > -- > Dave Jones > V/Soft Software > www.vsoft-software.com > Houston, TX > 281.578.7544 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
