Thank you for the feed back. I appears that without VM, I am going to have to IPL initially from tape.
I have seen instructions on building the tape, so it should work. Thanks again..........Larry -----Original Message----- From: Frans Pop [mailto:elen...@planet.nl] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:38 AM To: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Trying To Get Started First of all, when you ask a question on a mailing list, please always follow up to that mailing list instead of replying to the person who replied to you. On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Martin, Larry D wrote: > I downloaded 5.0.3 from mirrors.usc.edu and that seemed to work fine. I > then burned CD1 (using Easy CD Creator). I then use the HMC and "Load > from CD/ROM". > > I get the following: > > [17179570.168401] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root > fs on unknown-block(1,0) > > Can I not use this technique to install Debian? What is the proper > methodology? I have just confirmed that booting from CD does not work. We'll have to look into that. As I said in my previous mail, it is a rather unusual installation method (only confirmed by the fact that nobody reported it is broken, and has been for quite some time). Please use the "generic" images I linked to in my previous mail instead. Unfortunately I cannot give you detailed instructions myself on how exactly to use them as I'm only familiar with the Hercules emulator [1] and not with real hardware. Cheers, FJP [1] On hercules it is done by defining a '3505' type device as kernel.debian parmfile.debian initrd.debian autopad eof and IPLing off that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org This E-mail and any of its attachments may contain Prince George’s County Government or Prince George's County 7th Judicial Circuit Court proprietary information, which is privileged and confidential. This E-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this E-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this E-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this E-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copy of this E-mail and any printout.