I tried that, and it IPL'd, but then kernel panic'd saying it couldn't find its root FS; which puzzled me; but it seems that without manually telling it the WWPN & LUN, it doesn't appear to know how to do that on its own.
Not a big deal, since I'll probably IPL quite rarely...the more uptime I can get the better. As for SLES 11, it doesn't work. I don't know what dark wizardry Connor used to get it running (he doesn't know either!); but when I tried it, my CP instantly went to a disabled wait state. Debian did the same thing. SLES's docs say z8x0 & z9x0 support were removed in SP1 from what I remember reading. and thanks on the congrats! It was challenging, but not as bad as some machines I've done! -Jim ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 12:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need Help IPL'ing Linux on Z Install >>> On 5/30/2017 at 12:32 PM, Jim Stefanik <j...@jimstefanik.com> wrote: > As promised, and update for anyone interested. I did manage to get it > working; just a bit differently than I expected. > > I had to go through the install a second time, but at the 3rd to last step, > where it asked if I want to install a new system, upgrade a system, or other; > I selected other, and then chose boot an existing system. It asked me to > load a few kernel modules for filesystem support (I accepted whatever ones it > asked for), and off it went. If you are using the kernel and initrd that came with the installation media, that's correct. If you take the installed kernel and initrd from /boot and use that instead, you won't have that problem. > So I know how my own fully working z800 :) Congratulations. ;) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
