Yes, I believe that is what is happening here....if the install code can not expand the INITRD IMG ramdisk image for the kernel to use for the install process, it will die.
Hope this helps some. DJ On 08/21/2014 01:10 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: > Thanks Dave! > > So am I to assume that it has not gotten to the Kernel load as of yet and > still in the INITRD ? > > Terry Martin – Consultant > Cell – 443 854-2452 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave > Jones > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:00 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time > > Hi, terry. > > > Here is what my RHEL 6.5 install files look like: > > KERNEL IMG A1 F 80 113594 1752 > INITRD IMG A1 F 80 234355 4578 > > The KERNEL IMG looks thee same, but my INITRD IMG files is a bit bigger.... > > Try reloading the INITRD IMG files from the install media. > > Good luck. > > DJ > On 08/21/2014 12:23 PM, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: >> Here is what they look like: >> >> KERNEL IMG A1 F 80 113594 1753 8/20/14 11:30:24 >> INITRD IMG A1 F 80 234521 4581 8/20/14 11:30:10 >> >> Terry Martin - Consultant >> Cell - 443 854-2452 >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of >> Davis, Larry (National VM Capability) >> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:17 PM >> To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu >> Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time >> >> Do your IMG files look like this >> >> Filename Filetype Fm Format Lrecl Records Blocks >> INITRD IMG I1 F 80 234521 4581 >> KERNEL IMG I1 F 80 113594 1752 >> >> Larry Davis, >> VM Capability >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of >> Martin, Terry Contractor >> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:08 PM >> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Subject: Error when load z/Linux for first time >> >> Hi >> >> We are trying our initial install of z/Linux under z/VM. We have received >> the files required for the load. We have built the z/Linus guest and are >> executing the EXEC to start the build. The following is what receive when we >> execute the execute. This is release RHEL6.5 running on z/VM 6.3 (1302). >> >> Any help would be appreciated! Let me know if you anymore information that >> may be helpful. >> >> TCP reno registered >> NET: Registered protocol family 1 >> Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... >> rootfs image is not initramfs (compression method lzma not >> configured); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 18321k freed >> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) >> type=2000 audit(1408637959.068:1): initialized HugeTLB registered 1 MB >> page size, pre-allocated 0 pages >> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 >> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) msgmni has >> been set to 32768 >> alg: No test for stdrng (krng) >> ksign: Installing public key data >> Loading keyring >> - Added public key 3DAAAAB33184E87A >> - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) >> - Added public key D4A26C9CCD09BEDA >> - User ID: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver Update Program >> <secal...@redhat.com<mailto:secal...@redhat.com<mailto:secalert@redhat >> .com<mailto:secal...@redhat.com>>> >> Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253) >> io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io >> scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) >> brd: module loaded >> loop: module loaded >> cio: Channel measurement facility initialized using format extended >> (mode autodetected) GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver TCP cubic >> registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket >> NET: Registered protocol family 17 >> registered taskstats version 1 >> Initalizing network drop monitor service >> md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect >> md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect >> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. >> md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. >> md: autorun ... >> md: ... autorun DONE. >> RAMDISK: lzma image found at block 0 >> RAMDISK: incomplete write (40960000 != 65745920) List of all partitions: >> No filesystem could mount root, tried: iso9660 Kernel panic - not >> syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) >> CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.32-431.el6.s390x #1 Process swapper (pid: 1, >> task: 00000004ffe5f350, ksp: 00000004ffe67710) >> 00000004ffe67d20 00000004ffe67ca0 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 >> 00000004ffe67d40 00000004ffe67cb8 00000004ffe67cb8 00000000004e3f44 >> 0000000000000011 0000000000000000 00000004f7691008 000003d29161efb8 >> 000000000000000d 000000000000000c 00000004ffe67d10 0000000000000000 >> 0000000000000000 000000000010564c 00000004ffe67ca0 00000004ffe67ce0 >> Call Trace: >> ([<000000000010554c>] show_trace+0xe8/0x138) [<00000000004e3d7e>] >> panic+0xde/0x250 [<000000000086c44a>] mount_block_root+0x322/0x33c >> [<000000000086c6ce>] prepare_namespace+0x1e2/0x220 >> [<000000000086b6b0>] kernel_init+0x464/0x47c [<000000000010a566>] >> kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [<000000000010a560>] >> kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc >> 00: HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 00020001 80000000 >> 00000000 00115482 >> >> >> Terry Martin - Consultant >> Cell - 443 854-2452 >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send >> email to lists...@vm.marist.edu<mailto: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/ >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ >> > > -- > Dave Jones > V/Soft Software > www.vsoft-software.com > Houston, TX > 281.578.7544 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/