I'm going to see if my manager will allow me to do test install on our z9BC. We don't run z/Linux here right now, but I do have a "sandbox" LPAR definition. So I'll see if I can sweet talk him into allowing me to try to IPL the DVD into that LPAR. That will totally convince me that the problem is with Hercules-390's emulation somehow. In the deep past, I have done some debugging of Hercules and found one "bug". Or I may just give up again. I'm looking at z/Linux because there have been some vague rumblings that we might consider consolidating some Linux/Intel servers onto a newer z (z10? - currently z9BC). But that's just wild rumor. I know for a fact that IT management wants a Windows-only environment.
Thanks. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 • N. Richland Hills • TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone • [email protected] • www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. –The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Harold Grovesteen > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fedora17 - S390X on Hercules/390 > > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 20:13 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > I downloaded the DVD ISO to my Linux/Intel Fedora 17 - x86_64 system. > > I tried to IPL the ISO using Hercules/390. I did a loop-back mount of > > the ISO to a directory, then did the Hercules/390 command: > > > > ipl /path/to/dev/generic.ins > > > > I got a lot of messages to the hercules console. The last ones that > > look good are: > > > > > > 82.265996! dracut: rd.dm=0: removing DM RAID activation 82.403817! > > dracut: rd.md=0: removing MD RAID activation > > > > Followed by the following messages, in a loop until I quit hercules > > > > <loop type="unending"> > > dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue dracut Warning: /dev/root > > does not exist > > > > Dropping to debug shell. > > > > /lib/dracut-lib.sh: line 802: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory > > 112.141699! dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue > > 112.146655! dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist > > > > > > dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue dracut Warning: /dev/root > > does not exist > > > > Dropping to debug shell. > > > > </loop> > > > > The only thing I can find via Google is on: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/s390x/2012-June/000195.html > > > > but the people there said it was probably a Hercules-390 error, not > fc17. Nothing more after that. > > > > Any ideas for me to try? > > > > -- > > John McKown > > Maranatha! <>< > > > I would suggest raising this issue on the hercules-390 list. > > Harold Grovesteen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] 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/
