My five cents: When you mount the ISO image somewhere, to point as an installation source, there is a .prm file in the 'images' directory, that I believe that *needs* to be filled in, in an LPAR installation.
Hope that helps! -- Pedro Principeza IBM Linux Support From: Martha McConaghy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 15/09/2015 15:52 Subject: Advice on doing RHEL 7 LPAR install Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> We've got some folks from outside the school working on a project in our lab. They want to do an RHEL 7 LPAR install, but are running into problems. I've never done a Linux install in an LPAR, always using virtual machines. So, I can't really advise them. They want to be able to boot the starter system off the HMC's DVD and then do the install from a system holding the ISO images (either FTP or NFS). They have been able to boot the starter system into the LPAR. However, it falls into the dreaded safe mode because it cannot find /dev/root. I had this trouble when I was doing a practice install in a virtual machine and found that I had a typo in my REDHAT PRM file. However, in this case, they don't have a customized PRM file at all. They just have a bootable DVD. So, is there a way to do this? Build a RHEL 7 install DVD that just boots into the LPAR and is already customized to do the install? Please pardon me if that sounds like an ignorant question. I've looked for any redbooks that might cover this, but wasn't able to find any and these guys won't do any research on their own....sigh.... Martha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
