Package: installation-reports Severity: important Tags: d-i
-- Package-specific info: Boot method: hercules virtual card reader Image version: daily build from 2017-10-23 Date: <Date and time of the install> Machine: Hercules Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [E] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: Based on the inwstructions at http://josefsipek.net/docs/s390-linux/hercules-s390.html (which really should find a home on the Debian wiki, but that as an aside) I created a file "debian.cnf" with the following contents: ---------- CPUSERIAL 000069 # CPU serial number CPUMODEL 9672 # CPU model number MAINSIZE 1024 # Main storage size in megabytes XPNDSIZE 0 # Expanded storage size in megabytes CNSLPORT 3270 # TCP port number to which consoles connect NUMCPU 4 # Number of CPUs LOADPARM 0120.... # IPL parameter OSTAILOR LINUX # OS tailoring PANRATE SLOW # Panel refresh rate (SLOW, FAST) ARCHMODE ESAME # Architecture mode ESA/390 or ESAME # console 001F 3270 # terminal 0009 3215 # reader 000C 3505 ./rdr/kernel.debian ./rdr/parmfile.debian ./rdr/initrd.debian autopad eof # printer 000E 1403 ./prt/print00e.txt crlf # dasd 0120 3390 ./dasd/3390.LINUX.0120 # tape 0581 3420 # network s390 realbox 0A00,0A01 CTCI -n /dev/net/tun -t 1500 10.1.1.2 10.1.1.1 ---------- Next, I created a file "dasd/3390.LINUX.0120" with the following command: dasdinit -lfs -linux dasd/3390.LINUX.0120 3390-3 LIN120 8000 Next, I downloaded the "initrd.debian", "kernel.debian", and "parmfile.debian" from the most recent successful d-i daily build. Finally, I started hercules like so: sudo hercules -f debian.cnf and entered the (hercules) command "ipl c". When the initrd, kernel, and parmfile are from a jessie install, this works. When they are from stretch or later(!) however, it does not. The kernel boots, and it seems to be doing a bit of initialization, but then it stops at: [...] 34.263205! Key type asymmetric registered 35.059693! ctcm: CTCM driver initialized Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd. 1;24r 4l(B)0 m 1;24r H J 24;1H m 1;24r 4l(B)0 m 1;24r H J 24;1H m Configure the network device After this "Configure the network device", d-i *should* show the template for me to select the network device type. It does not, however; it just sits at the "Configure the network device" line. For comparison, on jessie that looks like this: [...] 5.108239! ctcm: CTCM driver initialized 5.115620! lcs: Loading LCS driver Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd. 1;24r 4l(B)0 m 1;24r H J 24;1H m Configure the network device ---------------------------- Please choose the type of your primary network interface that you will need for installing the Debian system (via NFS or HTTP). Only the listed devices are supported. Network device type: 1: ctc: Channel to Channel (CTC) or ESCON connection, 2: qeth: OSA-Express in QDIO mode / HiperSockets, 3: iucv: Inter-User Communication Vehicle - available for VM guests only, 4: virtio: KVM VirtIO, Prompt: '?' for help> Obviously something is going terribly wrong here. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, m68k, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)