I'm having pretty much the same problem described by Mike, except that
my generic.prm looks like this:
ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!condev
inst.repo=ftp://9.2.98.16/e/redhat/rhel7
Looking at the FTP server, there is no sign that any attempt was made to
access it.
Any ideas? I must be doing something wrong, but it's eluding me so far.
Ray
On 9/16/2014 15:41, Michael MacIsaac 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
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