Re: Dracut error after Booting default (grub) message

2020-05-27 Thread Will, Chris
Do you know what package was patched and version? We tried a couple of patches that did not work but they were not as current as the one you are using. Chris -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Victor Echavarry Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 1:57 PM To:

Re: Dracut error after Booting default (grub) message

2020-05-27 Thread Victor Echavarry
Chris: I talked with our Unix group. There was RPM's that SUSE send to us. But they need to execute twice for the issue disappear and appears to happen expanding the DASD not the SAN storage LVM. SUSE still working for a final fix. This is a findings from one of our Unix guy. "All of our

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Rick Troth
What Steve said. I was going to ask the same question. -- R; <>< On 5/27/20 12:45 PM, Steven Imler wrote: > 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

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Steven, I set it to 32Gb. Regards, David On 2020-05-27 12:45, Steven Imler wrote: 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

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Dan Horák
On Wed, 27 May 2020 12:50:06 -0400 Rick Troth wrote: > Also, David, can you share the _URLs from where you pulled those > files_? Thanks. or the whole log from the boot, important bits are also at the beginning (the kernel command line). Dan > I'm going to update the RHEL

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Dan Horák
On Wed, 27 May 2020 12:27:22 -0400 David Spiegel wrote: > 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]

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Mauro Souza
I had this exact issue yesterday. The problem is probably a corrupted bootstrap file. Make sure to send the files as binary fixed 80, and prefer ftp transfer. I used the file transfer of x3270 and it failed just like yours. On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 13:40 David Spiegel wrote: > Hi Dan, > I am not

Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread David Spiegel
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

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Dan, I am not sure that I understand what you're asking. I PUNched these files (which I obtained from the downloaded ISO): KERNEL    IMG GENERIC   PRM INITRD    IMG Regards, David On 2020-05-27 12:35, Dan Horák wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2020 12:27:22 -0400 David Spiegel wrote: Hi, I am

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Rick Troth
Also, David, can you share the _URLs from where you pulled those files_? Thanks. I'm going to update the RHEL config for the ZNETBOOT utility. (Which might help you, though you're far enough along you probably don't *need* it.) -- R; <>< On 5/27/20 12:46 PM, Mauro Souza wrote: > I had this

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Mauro, Thank you!!! That was the problem. (i.e. corrupted .img file which had been IND$FILEd up)) I FTPd the files from a Windows Server (after MOUNTing the ISO on a (Virtual) Drive). One other thing ... The Red Hat doc. has a mistake:

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Rick, https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/72/ver=/rhel---7/7.6/s390x/product-software Regards, David On 2020-05-27 12:50, Rick Troth wrote: Also, David, can you share the _URLs from where you pulled those files_? Thanks. I'm going to update the RHEL config for the ZNETBOOT utility.

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
What is in your generic prm file? Neale Ferguson -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Steven Imler
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

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
You need to provide a root file system location. Here's mine: root=live:nfs://172.17.16.45/export/redhat/rhel7/s390x/iso/images/install.img In this instance I have the ISO loop mounted on a Linux x86 guest (172.17.16.45) that has then exported it via NFS. Neale Ferguson On 5/28/20, 13:15,

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Neale, Under z/VM , the rules are different. I FTPd 3 files from the ISO and PUNched them to the Virtual Reader by running the supplied REDHAT EXEC: /* */ 'CL RDR' 'PURGE RDR ALL' 'SPOOL PUNCH * RDR' 'PUNCH KERNEL IMG A (NOH' 'PUNCH GENERIC PRM A (NOH' 'PUNCH INITRD IMG A (NOH' 'CH RDR ALL

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread David Spiegel
ro ramdisk_size=4 cio_ignore=all,!condev On 2020-05-27 22:58, Neale Ferguson wrote: What is in your generic prm file? Neale Ferguson -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Installing Red Hat (RHEL) 7.6 on z/VM 6.4

2020-05-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
No, these just get the boot going. From that point on the installer needs to find the installation materials. The parms I showed are what I use to install RHEL in a VM guest. The initrd only holds enough code to get a working system up that the anaconda installer can exploit. Once the basic