On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:10:52 -0500
Jim Elliott <jlelliot...@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, so we got RHEL 7.6 downloaded instead of Fedora. We have the
> files from the .iso on a thumb drive inserted into the HMC. When we
> use this generic.prm file we get (after a lot of messages)
> "Warning: /dev/root does not exist". I am sure we have something

the warning/error means the installer first stage can't get the second
stage, which is usually accessed via network (like Neale shows), but for
LPAR it can also use the ISO directly via the hmcdrvfs. There should be
a section in the RHEL docs about it.


                Dan

> wrong here, but nothing obvious to us.
>
> root=/dev/root ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=0.0.0000-0.0.2FFF,!
> condev rd.znet=qeth,0.0.D900,0.0.D901,0.0.D902,LAYER2=1
> ip=10.0.20.19::10.0.20.1:24:fedoraz:enccw0.0.D900:none
> nameserver=10.0.20.254 nameserver=10.0.20.253
> text
> rd.dasd=0.0.6320
> rd.dasd=0.0.6321
> rd.dasd=0.0.6322
> rd.zfcp=0.0.6320,0x500507630e840387,0x4011402000000000
> rd.zfcp=0.0.6321,0x500507630e840387,0x4011402100000000
> rd.zfcp=0.0.6322,0x500507630e840387,0x4011402200000000
>
> Jim Elliott
> Mainframe Consultant - GlassHouse Systems Inc.
> email: jelli...@ghsystems.com <jlelliot...@gmail.com>
> web: http://jlelliotton.blogspot.ca/
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