Hello Mike, Here is the documentation for RHEL on z: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/part-installation-system-z.html
Let me know if you have any questions, Kind Regards, Filipe Miranda On Sep 16, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list, > > 1) Has anyone been able to install RHEL 7 on z? > 2) Is there any documentation specific to System z? > > I was able to download the two ISO images from rhn.redhat.com. I did not > see any documentation on the Web nor on the mounted ISO (perhaps I'm > missing it). > > I tried the following steps, but got errors similar to what others have > reported in this forum: > > Thanks. > > -Mike M. > > -) Mount ISO image on an NFS server and export it > -) Copy kernel and RAMdisk from images/ directory to CMS disk > -) Update parmfile in the images/ directory with new first line: > # cat generic.prm > ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!condev > -) Log on to Linux virtual machine > -) DEF STOR 1G > -) IPL CMS > -) run the RHEL7 EXEC - system starts booting: > ... > 7.280120 systemd-udevd: renamed network interface eth0 to enccw0.0.0600 > ... > > *really, systemd, I will miss the old sysVinit ... (sniff, sniff :))really, > enccw0.0.0600 is better than eth0? (not a good start systemd :))* > ... > OK Mounted Configuration File System. > OK Reached target System Initialization. > OK Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. > OK Reached target Paths. > OK Reached target Basic System. > ... > *install stops here for a couple of minutes, then:* > ... > dracut-initqueueÝ706¨: Warning: Could not boot. > OK Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. > OK Reached target Paths. > OK Reached target Basic System. > dracut-initqueue: Warning: Could not boot. > dracut-initqueue: Warning: /dev/root does not exist > ... > generating /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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 lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/
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