What is the primary virtual storage of the Linux guest? I think this issue is that for RHEL 7.6 you need a minimum of 2GIG for the install.
JR (Steven) Imler Sr. Software Engineer | Mainframe Division Broadcom office: +1 571.401.8685 2291 Wood Oak Drive | Herndon, Virginia 20171 steven.im...@broadcom.com | broadcom.com -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 12:27 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4 Hi, I am trying to clean (i.e. no previous version of Linux installed) install Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4 and getting: [ 14.680886] md: Skipping autodetection of RAID arrays. (raid=autodetect will force) [ 14.681320] List of all partitions: [ 14.681382] No filesystem could mount root, tried: [ 14.681487] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) [ 14.681557] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-957.el7.s390x #1 [ 14.681604] 00000007f7c43bc8 00000007f7c43c58 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 00000007f7c43cf8 00000007f7c43c70 00000007f7c43c70 000000000073ef52 0000000000000000 0000000000919042 00000000008fb204 000000000000000b 00000007f7c43cb8 00000007f7c43c58 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000075bb30 00000000001179dc 00000007f7c43c58 00000007f7c43cb8 [ 14.682177] Call Trace: [ 14.682228] ([<00000000001178b0>] show_trace+0x108/0x160) [ 14.682343] [<000000000011798c>] show_stack+0x84/0x108 [ 14.682434] [<000000000073ed2e>] panic+0x106/0x2b8 [ 14.682513] [<0000000000b820b6>] mount_block_root+0x2ae/0x2b0 [ 14.682592] [<0000000000b822a2>] prepare_namespace+0x17a/0x1b8 [ 14.682682] [<0000000000b81c66>] kernel_init_freeable+0x24e/0x268 [ 14.682769] [<0000000000736f3c>] kernel_init+0x3c/0x128 [ 14.682846] [<000000000074e56a>] kernel_thread_starter+0xa/0x10 [ 14.682953] [<000000000074e560>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0x10 HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 00020001 80000000 00000000 00112704 I created the Virtual Machine according to the "cookbook" and SWAPGENd 2 Virtual drives before PUNching the 3 Files and IPLing from the Virtual Reader. Please help! Thanks and regards, David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390