I, too, have had the same experiences. My old RHEL 5.2 installation process worked (and still works) properly catching that redhat.conf file. Under 5.4, however, the redhat.conf file is ignored I have to specify by hand the network settings.
We use a kickstart process here and so I don't have to specify a root password but after I've manually entered the network stuff, the installation pauses on the 3270 side with a message of "Now go logon as root with ssh to continue the installation" (or some such). Different from Sue's, however, is that when I ssh to the IP address, I'm not prompted for root's password. It simply accepts that I'm logging on as root and continues. After I get on with no password, the 3270 screen takes off again and continues the installation. I haven't tried the "add a second CPU" option but I will pursue that as time allows. Sorry, I have no suggestions to solve your problem, I just wanted to make sure that you know that others suffer the same conditions. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Sue Sivets Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Rhel 5.4 install problems I'm trying to install Rhel 5.4 under VM, and it's not doing what I think it should be doing as far as the redhat.conf file is concerned. I installed Rhel 5.3 a couple of months ago (using the redhat parm & conf files), so I copied both the parm and conf files from that system to the 191 disk for the new machine, and updated the conf file with the correct information. Then I copied the kernal & initrd files from the Rhel 5.4 dvd. I think everything is setup correctly, and I'm not getting any messages that look like error messages, but after I punch the files to the reader and ipl it, I'm getting prompted for the dasd and network information, as if the software either doesn't see the cmsconffile info in the parm file, or as if it doesn't even know the conf file exists. On the 5.3 install, the system prompted me for the password that I wanted to use for root, the 5.4 system is not doing that, but it does tell me when I can log in to the new system as user root, using SSH. Of course when I try to do that, I get prompted for roots password. If there is a default, I don't know what it is, and so far everything I've tried in both upper and lower case has not worked. The redhat.parm file is: root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000 CMSDASD=191 CMSCONFFILE=redhat.conf The redhat.conf file is: HOSTNAME="red54.idp.com" DASD="0500-8f27" NETTYPE="qeth" IPADDR="192.168.250.245" SUBCHANNELS="0.0.E017,0.0.E018,0.0.E019" NETWORK="192.168.250.0" NETMASK="255.255.255.0" BROADCAST="192.168.250.255" SEARCHDNS="idp.com" GATEWAY="192.168.250.161" DNS="192.168.150.156" MTU="1500" LAYER2="0" VSWITCH="1" PORTNAME=" " PORTNO="0" Does anyone have any idea of how to make this install work? I don't really mind having to enter the information manually, but the password part of the problem has stopped me cold, and I don't see any way of going any further without fixing whatever is causing the password promt to not happen. If anyone knows what the default password is, I would appreciate knowing what it is, so I can at least get logged on and hopefully get the system installed. I can always change the root password later on. Thank you to anyone who's got any ideas. Sue Sivets -- Suzanne Sivets Systems Programmer Innovation Data Processing 275 Paterson Ave Little Falls, NJ 07424-1658 973-890-7300 Fax 973-890-7147 ssiv...@fdrinnovation.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
