On 12.04.2016 01:11, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Hello, > > On 12 April 2016 at 00:00, Martha McConaghy <u...@vm.marist.edu> wrote: >> I've been fighting with a Debian install all day and wonder if anyone else >> has run into the same problem. I wanted to use LVM for the root filesystem, >> so created a /boot partition and an LVM for the rest. Everything works fine >> until it comes to the step where it tries to write out ZIPL. That step >> fails. >> I tried all sorts of combinations, but the only that actually works is >> creating 1 partition for / with no LVM at all. Something is not right. >> >> The timestamp on the install files I'm using is April 2, so they are pretty >> new. The level of Debian is jessie. >> > > I recommend to try testing aka stretch. There were LVM fixes uploaded > there. As usual do attach /var/log/syslog from the d-i to help > debugging what's going wrong. That is exactly the point, Debian Jessie's installer only accepts the root device on a DASD partition. With Stretch, root can be anywhere including LVM volumes. > > Note there is also Debian specific mailing debian-s390: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/ > > Regards, > > Dimitri. > [...] --
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