Thank you for the response.
I made progress by upping the memory for the virtual machine - seems like
512MB is just not enough for the installation.
My next issue was the file structure on the DVD - my FTP server is Filezilla
running on XP - I simply copied the DVD contents to a folder on the FTP
server - alas this created another problem - the symbolic links for repodata
and packages weren't handled properly so I had to manually move stuff around
to suit the installer's requirements. The install is now well into
phase3 - I'm guessing it will take a few hours - there is no indication of
any progress apart from the CPU usage is over 90% most of the time.
Thanks again for assistance
Bern..
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From: "Steffen Maier" <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 11:16 PM
To: <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - installing problems
On 12/02/2010 03:51 AM, Bern VK2KAD wrote:
I then managed to make progress using the URL install method and ftp -
after
successfully logging on to the ftp server things started to happen. So
far so good.
Alas, suddenly it all evaporated into a puff of smoke - the following is
a
snip from the log.
Can anyone explain why the install decided to shutdown -
02:44:43,403 INFO : transferring
ftp://b...@20.250.180.52/RHEL6/images/install.img
02:45:24,353 INFO : mounted loopback device /mnt/runtime on /dev/loop0 as
/tmp/install.img
02:45:24,354 INFO : got stage2 at url
ftp://b...@20.250.180.52/RHEL6/images/install.img
02:45:24,354 INFO : reset repo= parameter to
ftp://b...@20.250.180.52/RHEL6
02:45:26,682 INFO : Loading SELinux policy
02:45:42,692 INFO : getting ready to spawn shell now
02:45:42,697 INFO : not spawning a shell
02:45:54,461 INFO : Running anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda
Apparently, the installer made progress into phase 3
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/ch-guimode-s390.html.
Did you see any TUI/GUI parts of this phase 3?
If so, during which of the wizard screens did the installer bail out?
Maybe enabling debug output will show some hints on the console. Could you
please add "loglevel=debug ignore_loglevel"
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603136#c1] to your parm file
(NOT conf file) and post the entire console log from IPL to shutdown?
about to exec shutdown
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems...
/mnt/runtime done
disabling /dev/loop0 LOOP_CLR_FD failed: 16
/proc done
/dev/pts done
/sys done
/selinux done
waiting for mdraid sets to become clean...
Error: mdadm exited with status: 127
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
halting system
This is just the default follow-on procedure in case anaconda bails out.
There is an anaconda boot option "nokill" to prevent this default
shutdown. Unfortunately, it currently does not work on s390. It would be
very helpful to fetch the logs from the volatile /tmp to see where the
installer bailed out. In case you need or would like to do that, the
following patch would need to be applied to sbin/init inside initrd.img:
commit ea22912b014c64ca8732305b36d4463c33f438e9
Author: Steffen Maier <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Jun 7 03:08:23 2010 +0200
Support "nokill" boot option for shutdown in linuxrc.s390
diff --git a/loader/linuxrc.s390 b/loader/linuxrc.s390
index 2a4104a..c0a6331 100644
--- a/loader/linuxrc.s390
+++ b/loader/linuxrc.s390
@@ -103,10 +103,17 @@ function checkipv4()
return $?
}
+function getKillPolicy()
+{
+ if grep -q nokill /proc/cmdline; then
+ echo "--nokill"
+ fi
+}
+
function doshutdown()
{
echo $"about to exec shutdown"
- exec /sbin/shutdown
+ exec /sbin/shutdown $(getKillPolicy)
exit 0
}
@@ -123,7 +130,7 @@ function doreboot()
fi
echo $"about to exec shutdown -r"
- exec /sbin/shutdown -r
+ exec /sbin/shutdown -r $(getKillPolicy)
exit 0
}
Steffen
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