Victor,
Does the virtual machine have at least 1G of memory?
-Mike
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Victor Echavarry <
[email protected]> wrote:
> We are planning a upgrade of all our z/Linux guest from SLES 11 SP4 to
> SLES 12 SP3. When executing the upgrade we receive the following message:
>
> Failed to execute /init (error -2)
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init /linuxrc failed (error -2).
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.73-5-default #1
> 000000001ee5fcc8 000000001ee5fd58 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
> 000000001ee5fdf8 000000001ee5fd70 000000001ee5fd70 0000000000260734
> 0000000000ad5ea8 00000000007dc9ee 00000000007ca056 000000000000000b
> 000000001ee5fdb8 000000001ee5fd58 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> 040000001ee5ff48 0000000000113c36 000000001ee5fd58 000000001ee5fdb8
> Call Trace:
> ([<0000000000113b2a>] show_trace+0xf2/0x140)
> [<0000000000113bea>] show_stack+0x72/0xf0
> [<0000000000439e7a>] dump_stack+0x82/0xb0
> [<000000000025f928>] panic+0xf0/0x228
> [<000000000064b428>] kernel_init+0xc0/0x118
> [<0000000000654e2e>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
> [<0000000000654e28>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
>
> This are our configuration files:
>
> SLES12 EXEC
>
> /* REXX LOAD EXEC FOR SUSE Linux S/390 VM GUESTS */
> /* LOADS SUSE Linux S/390 FILES INTO READER */
> SAY ''
> SAY 'LOADING SLES12 FILES INTO READER...'
> 'CP CLOSE PUN *'
> 'CP CLOSE RDR'
> 'PURGE RDR ALL'
> 'SPOOL PUNCH * RDR'
> 'PUNCH SLES12 Linux * (NOH'
> 'PUNCH PARMFILE 'USERID() ' * (NOHEADER'
> 'PUNCH SLES12 INITRD * (NOH'
> 'CHANGE RDR ALL KEEP NOHOLD'
> 'CP IPL 000C CLEAR'
>
> PARMFILE
>
> ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxrc TERM=dumb
> hostip=10.23.11.246 netmask=255.255.248.0 gateway=10.23.11.193
> nameserver=10.23.0.238 portname=none portno=0
> instnetdev=osa osainterface=qdio osamedium=eth layer2=1
> OSAHWaddr=02:78:C1:02:48:00
> readchannel=0.0.0360 writechannel=0.0.0361 datachannel=0.0.0362
> usevnc=1 vncpassword=vncpassw
> install=http://10.1.38.158/upgrade/SLE-12-SP3-Server-DVD-s390x-GM-DVD1.iso
>
> INITRD and LINUX
>
> SLES12 INITRD D1 F 80 333414 6512 3/09/18
> SLES12 LINUX D1 F 80 139085 2438 3/09/18
>
> Why it can't connect? Our z/VM version is 6.4
>
> Regards,
>
> Victor Echavarry
>
> System Programmer
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> Operating Systems
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> EVERTEC, LLC
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-Mike MacIsaac
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