On Thursday 30 September 2010, Phil Knirsch wrote: > On 09/30/2010 04:48 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Karsten - > > I downloaded the installation images and booted using Hercules 3.07 (from > > SVN) and everything went well until anaconda crapped out during > > "Examining storage" (or a similar message). I had allocated four empty > > 3390-9's which ought to be enough. I can post the logs here or is it > > best to pursue this somewhere else? > > > > Cheers > > -Robin > > Hi Robin. > > Were those completely fresh DASDs? If so, then anaconda should have > asked you if it should initialize them (via dasdfmt). If that happened > then you most likely got hit by the bug i described in point 10: > > 10) After a while if you do this the 1st time you will be asked to > confirm to low level format the > drive. Do this as this has to happen for a first time image. If you > reuse an old image you > won't be bothered with this anymore. > We've had some cases where with a completely fresh image even > partition would traceback. In that > case simply restart the install from step 7) onwards and it should > work.
They were formatted with the dasdinit "-linux" parameter so dasdfmt should not be necessary. or will that confuse it? -Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/