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
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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
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