On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Martha McConaghy wrote:

> Has anyone run into problems getting RHEL 8 to install on Z? I've run into a

Interesting suggestions all in this thread.  /me waves 'hi' to
Smooge ;)


I see a couple of moving parts here:

1 missing modules in a virtualization environment
        this may still persist, as it is not a well-tested
        path

2. inability to turn up the ethernet interface (shown in your
report) possibly due to a re-naming. p[possibly due to a
missing module


My research showed two possibly relevant bugs in the Red Hat
public tracker

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396217

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396217
   missing modules in a virtualization environment


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1680049

"[   10.810441] localhost multipathd[933]: dasda: failed to
get udev uid: Invalid"
argument

"[   10.367618] localhost dracut-pre-udev[534]: modprobe:
FATAL: Module sha256 no"
"t found in directory /lib/modules/4.18.0-32.el8.s390x"

"[   10.530096] localhost systemd-udevd[834]: link_config:
autonegotiation is uns"
"et or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable."
"[   10.530308] localhost systemd-udevd[834]: Could not set
Alias=, MACAddress= o"
"r MTU= on eth0: Resource temporarily unavailable"
"[   10.530334] localhost systemd-udevd[834]: Could not apply
link config to eth0"
", ignoring: Resource temporarily unavailable"
"[   10.533283] localhost systemd-udevd[756]: Process
'ccw_init' failed with exit"
"code 1."

comment 7

The problem seems to be in an incorrect name of the network
device specified on the kernel command line:

rd.znet=qeth,0.0.a700,0.0.a701,0.0.a702,layer2=1,portno=0
ip=10.62.40.144::10.62.40.1:24:zll0009:enccw0.0.a700:none

"enccw0.0.a700" should be replaced with "enca700". It's
because of a new naming scheme for s390x network devices
introduced in
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/0037a669ac9a2bbedccdb2f483111351e8ff4659

comment 13

Please Change the Dokumentation
(https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html/installing_and_deploying_rhel/index),
because we used it as reference and there was no difference to
7.X !!!

"Example 14.1. Customized generic.prm file

ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!condev
inst.repo=http://example.com/path/to/repository
rd.znet=qeth,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602,layer2=1,portno=0,portname=foo
ip=192.168.17.115::192.168.17.254:24:foobar.systemz.example.com:enccw0.0.0600:none
nameserver=192.168.17.1
rd.dasd=0.0.0200 rd.dasd=0.0.0202
rd.zfcp=0.0.4000,0x5005076300C213e9,0x5022000000000000
inst.ks=http://example.com/path/to/kickstart";

Thanks a lot,


Hope this gives you the needed trail-head

-- Russ herrold

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